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adipose
May 02, 2019Copper Contributor
Ability to save passwords for sites with invalid SSL certs
See here for a bug that has been ignored by Google for 4.5 years: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=431618 The ability to save passwords for sites is a convenience that mo...
Eric_Lawrence
Microsoft
Feb 25, 2021If the Self-Signed certificate is properly imported into the Trusted CA store, and if there are no other errors in the certificate (e.g. expired, name mismatch, etc), then the site will load without errors or security warnings in Edge, and the password manager will permit you to save the password for later use.
wr-pdx
Feb 25, 2021Copper Contributor
Eric_Lawrence thx Eric! I confirmed this works now, per your advice! I had a typo in the name of the cert and reissued it as a self-signed cert (non-CA cert). Next I imported into the local user | Trusted Root Certification Authorities under windows 10. And it works as expected, prompting to save passwords! Many thx, this will save me quite a bit of frustration. I dont think the guys over here know this:
431618 - Google Chrome does not offer to save password for https with unverified ID - chromium
I may make a post over there. but thx again. This is great!