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downloading attached self signed certificate causing "This is not a certificat authority certificate, so it can't be imported into the certificate authority lis

prakashkongara
prakashkongara
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I am trying to download attached self-signed certificate and resulting in alert pop up "This is not a certificate authority certificate, so it can't be imported into the certificate authority list".

I am trying to download attached self-signed certificate and resulting in alert pop up "This is not a certificate authority certificate, so it can't be imported into the certificate authority list".

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WestEnd
WestEnd
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Did you ask the sender if it was up to date certificate? The Browser does have it's internal checks to verify it and if it fails that it will not work.

prakashkongara
prakashkongara Question owner
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This is self signed certificate thats been attached earlier. i am trying to download it not install it. Here Mozilla firefox seems to install directly and fails. In all other browsers i am able to download as file.