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Subdomain wildcard certificate not recognized

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We have created a self signed CA certificate that verifies a sub domain "*.dev.mydomain.example", NOT as in the more common case the whole domain "*.mydomain.example".

Firefox does not properly recognize a sub domain of this wildcard, e.g. cms.dev.mydomain.example.

The error message is:


cms.dev.mydomain.example uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for *.dev.clearsense.at (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)


using Firefox 36.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.9.5

We have created a self signed CA certificate that verifies a sub domain "*.dev.mydomain.example", NOT as in the more common case the whole domain "*.mydomain.example". Firefox does not properly recognize a sub domain of this wildcard, e.g. cms.dev.mydomain.example. The error message is: -------------------------------------------------------- cms.dev.mydomain.example uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for *.dev.clearsense.at (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) -------------------------------------------------------- using Firefox 36.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.9.5

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