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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ssl auth failure gui: does "continue" do what I think it does?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-06-05 6:56:10
Message-ID: 200906050856.11001.thiago () kde ! org
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Nicholas Tung wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>    If the "continue" button on the attached GUI screenshot does what I
>think it does (submits information after a certificate failure), please
>remove the option, or make it *very* clear that this is not a good
> choice. Firefox, by contast, has only a failure message and an "okay"
> button. [The gui came up for me because I connect via a wifi network
> that requires authentication, and it presents a redirect page for http
> and https].

Firefox makes it very annoying to accept an invalid certificate. You have 
to add an exception to the SSL rules and you need to fetch the certificate 
first. That's after the failure message.

However, Firefox is a browser. KDE is not a browser: there has to be a way 
of adding this exception from dialog boxes in any application. With that 
in mind, I don't see what's wrong with the current buttons.

The message should be expanded to explain better what it is, as well as 
focus on Cancel first.

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