Connect to self-signed HTTPS web services from Flex?

When I put on my security hat the answer would be I hope not. I don't want browser plugins to bypass my browser security settings. I'd consider that a vulnerability.

When I put on my security hat the answer would be I hope not. I don't want browser plugins to bypass my browser security settings. I'd consider that a vulnerability.

There might be a way for standalone Air applications, but in browser Flash should honor browser settings.

You need to download the cert and install it on both IE and Firefox. To install a cert on IE: markwilson.co.uk/blog/2008/11/trusting-a... To install a cert on FF: Go to Tools->Options and click on the Encryption tab. Click "View Certificates", then "Import".

In my experience, the cert has to be either verified or installed in the browser in order to get Flash to work properly. The cert also needs to have a valid hostname, but you can just edit your client's hostfile if you need to do this for testing.

Well, the flash player should just use the browser to make the connection and be done with it. We have a similar setup here. We use self-made certs, and communicate with the an AMF channel over HTTPS.My guess is though that our setup is different in that we load the flash application itself over an HTTPS channel, so it's talking from HTTPS to the same HTTPS server.

Maybe you could try that? This is the setup for our Tomcat server: stackoverflow.com/questions/1180397/tomc....

In your company, you could create your own root CA, add its certificate to all machines that will access the intranet, and then have the CA issue your web service a certificate. The certificate will no longer be self-signed. The two main issues are: (1) managing the private key of your CA, (2) distributing the CA's root certificate to client PCs.

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