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SSL Bad Certificate Format error blocking management interface
I ran into an unusual problem today on a new Win10Pro laptop where my Chromium engine based browser blocked access to my ReadyNAS Duo v1 (latest firmware 4.1.1.6) because of SSL certificate problem, ...
The latest Chrome version has disabled click-through for the ERR_SSL_SERVER_CERT_BAD_FORMAT issue...
My work-around was to first access my admin page from Edge or IE (Firefox did not work for me) and after clicking-through the warnings, goto to settings>http and enable "Enable HTTP Admin" (screeshot attached will help to find it) .... after doing this using even Chrome over http works (remove the "s" from the https address)... launching from RAIDar NAS Control also works great
I appreciate this is not as secure but then again neither is a certificate with an untrusted issuing authority.
Screenshot attached of where to change setting....
CplMulder wrote:The latest Chrome version has disabled click-through for the ERR_SSL_SERVER_CERT_BAD_FORMAT issue...
Whatever Chrome version that is ... no problems here with Chrome 76, Chrome 77, and Chrome Canary 77.
CplMulder wrote:I appreciate this is not as secure but then again neither is a certificate with an untrusted issuing authority.
While there is a warning on connecting by https ....
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...which still can be bypassed ... it's not ERR_SSL_SERVER_CERT_BAD_FORMAT - re-create the self-signed cert by entring a new/different name on the https control of your RN.
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