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Configure IE8 to accept cookies with a bad SSL certificate

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:05 pm
by midix
I am trying to get my authorization sessions to work with Zend Framework. My configuration s latest XAMPP package with SSL Virtual Host enabled. But the problem is - I enabled SSL VHost not for the localhost but for a subdomain (something.localhost). Yeah, I know, XAMPP has a cert only valid for localhost so all browsers warn me about the security problem. Still Firefox works fine and I can test how my website is working with SSL.

But IE8 does not work as expected. I installed Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar and found out that there are simply no any cookies accepted for my subdomain - nor session nor others. Tried to allow cookies in Privacy settings - still nothing. I scratched my head and reconfigured Apache to use SSL for localhost domain. As XAMPPs cert is valid for localhost, this time IE8 accepted cookies.

I really have used to use subdomain for testing. Is there any way to allow IE8 to accept unsecured cookies just for development purpose?

Thanks for any ideas.

Re: Configure IE8 to accept cookies with a bad SSL certificate

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:38 am
by midix
Ohh, never mind, it seams I got this issue:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7942 ... et-cookies

http://forums.asp.net/p/1099884/1672283.aspx

So .. goodbye, underscores, and everything is fine. Also I generated a new wildcard SSL for my entire domain so now even IE accepts the certificate for my sub.dom.tld pages if I install it into Trusted root certs.