Silently drops SSL connections to sites with certificate problems.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. "Start watching".
2. Go to any site you did not visit before ( or you just dont have its cert
installed) with cert problems ( self-signed / unknown issuer / wrong domain
etc.) https://mail.by https://secure.mail.ru

What is the expected output? 

Standard FF error page: 
Secure Connection Failed. mail.by uses an invalid security certificate.
etc.

What do you see instead?
nothing. 
silent drop

After that you just "Stop watching" and hit Reload.
and you see expected output mentioned above.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ff / httpfox latest from mozilla.org. 2003 sp2 32b

Please provide any additional information below.
have it reproduced on different computers, so dont think config matters

Original issue reported on code.google.com by xwx...@yahoo.com on 17 Dec 2008 at 7:58

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Original comment by pappkame...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2008 at 9:31

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium

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I am running Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows XP SP 2 and I am impacted by this 
problem. The
workaround is to disable HttpFox, restart firefox, add the cetificate as a 
security
exception through the normal prompts, enable HttpFox and try again.

It is very inconvenient!

Original comment by geoff.j....@gmail.com on 13 Jan 2009 at 1:53

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Original comment by pappkame...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2009 at 10:45

• Changed state: Fixed