Question

Import SSL certificate

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Could someone tell me in which situations we need to import a ssl certificate in our project? I saw the tab "Certificates" in the project settings and don't know when this option is used.

asked 2011-08-18

Samet Kaya

2 answers

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See https://world.mendix.com/display/refguide3/Project+Settings

answered 2011-08-18

Sebastiaan van den Broek

Michel Weststrate · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-18

(See comment Samet, explanation was to long for a comment)

Because each system has a certain list of certificates he trusts. The certificate setting is to add additional trusted certificates. If you browse to www.rabobank.nl for example, you don't have to add its certificate to your system, because its signed by VeriSign, which is by default trusted by most systems.

So if something is with a certificate which is signed by someone who's certificate is signed by someone (repeat this X times) who's certificate is trusted by your system, the browser or java will trust the thing. If not, you need to add the certificate to the list of trusted certificates, and its your responsibility.