The certificate for gmail.com could not be validated

[Daniel Atallah]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Steve Golub <smgolub at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> Today for the 1st time this message started popping up:
>
> SSL Certificate Validation
> Accept certificate for gmail.com?
> The certificate for gmail.com could not be validated.
> The certificate is not trusted because no certificate that can verify it
> is currently trusted.
>
> When I click on View Certificate I see this:
>
> Common name: gmail.com
> Fingerprint (SHA1):
> 28:dd:89:d3:0a:a6:f0:a2:b9:f8:77:fc:55:fc:ab:85:18:de:13:ff
> Activation date: Tue Jul 23 09:37:27 2013
> Expiration date: Wed Jul 23 09:37:27 2014
>
> I'm running Pidgin 2.10.6 (libpurple 2.10.6) on Windows 7.
>

Upgrade to Pidgin 2.10.7.


>
> What changed?  How do I get past it?
>

Google updated the Certificates.  There's a bug in older Pidgin versions
that prevents the new certificate from being validated successfully.

-D
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