{"id":45,"date":"2010-03-10T21:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2010-03-10T21:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T02:52:57","slug":"managing-certificate-authorities-in-adobe-flash-on-fedorarhel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/managing-certificate-authorities-in-adobe-flash-on-fedorarhel\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Certificate Authorities in Adobe Flash on Fedora\/RHEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>or: making your file uploads work over HTTPS when you are using a self-signed certificate or an authority Flash decides it doesn&#8217;t like.<\/h2>\n<p>Flash is a popular way to upload files to web sites.  This is because you can have multiple files upload at once, give pretty progress bars, and can control the file upload UI.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2009\/06\/xhr-progress-and-richer-file-uploading-feedback\/\">There are some alternatives that don&#8217;t appear to be cross-platform<\/a>, but that seems self-defeating.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a problem; if you are using a certificate that Flash doesn&#8217;t like, it doesn&#8217;t work at all. \u00c2\u00a0And you don&#8217;t get an error message. \u00c2\u00a0In Windows this is solved pretty well. \u00c2\u00a0If Internet Explorer trusts a certificate, so does Flash. \u00c2\u00a0But on Linux, flash only checks the system certificate store. \u00c2\u00a0And on Fedora, it doesn&#8217;t even do that.<\/p>\n<p>To fix it until Adobe fixes the bug, run as root:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">mkdir \/etc\/ssl &amp;&amp; ln -sf \/etc\/pki\/tls\/certs \/etc\/ssl\/certs<\/pre>\n<p>Come to think of it, is there a way to tell where the system certs should be found?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or: making your file uploads work over HTTPS when you are using a self-signed certificate or an authority Flash decides it doesn&#8217;t like. Flash is a popular way to upload files to web sites. This is because you can have multiple files upload at once, give pretty progress bars, and can control the file upload\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/managing-certificate-authorities-in-adobe-flash-on-fedorarhel\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}