Firefox hangs connecting to Cockpit

Stef Walter stefw at redhat.com
Mon Mar 23 13:49:31 UTC 2015


There's a Firefox bug where it hangs for a long time when trying to
connect to Cockpit over TLS.

This is a Firefox issue, and has to do with the TLS certificates that
Cockpit automatically-generates. The same thing happens with Firefox use
of these self-signed certificates on apache or other servers.

Details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204670

Cockpit 0.45 has a work-around to generate certificates slightly
differently so that Firefox doesn't fall over.

To regenerate problematic certificates you can:

 $ sudo rm /etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/~self-signed.cert
 $ sudo systemctl restart cockpit

Cheers,

Stef


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