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There is a fair amount of difference between "an invalid cert" and a certificate that is valid apart from having expired a day ago.
by abhorrence 11y ago
There is a fair amount of difference between "an invalid cert" and a certificate that is valid apart from having expired a day ago.
- cortesoft 11y agoThen why not push the expiration back 2 days, which is effectively what the OP is proposing. A reasonable thing to do instead is to give a warning like "The security certificate for app X is expiring in two days. Please update it" or something like that. OR don't have expiration dates on a cert, if that is preferable.
- pyre 11y agoYou have to realize that "start warning the user two days before the expiration date" and "start warning the user on the expiration date, but give them a grace period of two days" is just an implementation detail, no?
- duaneb 11y agoI think this is a great example of certificate expirations working well and as expected. Clients should update their damn software.
- cptskippy 11y agoWell as someone else pointed out, Snow Leopard users literally can't.
- duaneb 11y ago...and this is why long term support is so important. That was literally the best released OS of all time, it's a shame it's falling off the end of the train.
- cptskippy 11y agoSoftware doesn't fall off the Apple train, it's bound, gagged, and shot in the back of the head before being thrown off while on a bridge over deep water.