Untrusted Authority Warnings

Symptoms

You open the URL of a secure grid service in your browser and it warns you that the "Connection is Untrusted"

Cause

This is expected behavior for securely deployed grid services.

The fundamental reason for this warning is because the Tomcat / Jboss container uses a grid host certificate to configure SSL. The grid certificate is signed by a Certificate Authority created for Dorian. The Dorian CA is not one of the standard CAs that is trusted by a web browser, which causes the warning.

Resolution

Firefox 3.5

1. Download the Training Grid CA Certificate
2. Open your Firefox Preferences
   
3. Click the View Certificates button.
4. Click the Authorities tab.
   
5. Click the Import button at the bottom of the screen.
6. Navigate to the CA certificate that you just downloaded and import it.
7. In the resulting dialog, select Trust this CA to identify web sites.
   
8. Click, OK
9. Click, OK

Now, when you open the web page of a caGrid Training Grid secure service your browser will automatically trust the host.