problems with MSN certificate chain

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, January 18, 2013 a las 08:52:16AM -0500, Ethan Blanton escribió:

> David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > >Looking at the certificate, I think the problem is that the
> > >certificate is for contacts.msn.com, but the server is
> > >local-bay.contacts.msn.com. An earlier certificate for a server in
> > >the contacts.msn.com domain (omega.contacts.msn.com) seems to be a
> > >wild card certificate (Subject: *.contacts.msn.com).
> > 
> > Although the lack of wild card may be a problem, based on off list
> > information from Matthias, it looks like Pidgin doesn't use the OS
> > root certificates, even on Windows.
> 
> Pidgin doesn't use the OS root certificates *only* on Windows.

Hi Ethan,
I'm not a native English and do not understand your phrase; could you
please explain what you say; thanks

	matthias
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