Facebook SSL Certificate

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Facebook SSL Certificate

Sometimes when I open safari 5.0.5 and it goes to my home page (engadget) I get a pop up warning (not a pop up browser window) saying safari cannot verify the validity of the certificate for www.facebook.com. It doesn't know if it can trust the signer of the certificate (digicert) but alerts me if I try to visit the site via bookmark, typing it into the url, when I'm not even trying to go to facebook or even when i start up safari. It doesn't happen every time I do one of those but never happened at all before a week ago so I'd like to know what is going on. Anyone have an idea?

I almost forgot I've been using https for a while now and haven't changed the setting recently but I do want to mention that might be a possible cause.

thanks

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on May 28, 2011 10:43 PM

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Answer 1

May 29, 2011 1:00 AM in response to evred

Quit Safari.

Open Keychain Access (Applications / Utilities) Select Certificates under Category.

If you see a Facebook certificate, right or control click then click Delete

Relaunch Safari.

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Marmer

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May 29, 2011 3:43 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

I had my first pop-up about the FB certificate this morning. I tried the suggestion above but I do not have a certificate from facebook in my keychain. Any other suggestions? Is it safe to proceed to FB with the certificate problem?

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evred Author

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May 29, 2011 12:59 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

the only relevant certificate i saw was under the system roots heading but nothing under the login one. is that what you were referring to?

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wiscgirl

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Jun 4, 2011 8:12 AM in response to evred

I am having the same problem - again. Last happened about 6 months ago then stopped.

No, I do not ever have a certificate for facebook in the keychain. No, I do not have certificate under the "passwords" section of the keychain. And after selecting "autofill user names and passwords" under safari preferences, it still happens.

This is a flaw in the safari program, which is why nothing fixes it. Apple needs to supply a patch.

Good luck getting that to happen.

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