Peer's Certificate issue.

Hello,

HELP PLEASE!!!!

I am a new user and trying to scrape a large website. I can start the proxy server then I use Firefox browser 3.03. I can pull up the main site and do a search on a certain item. I get the results screen but when I try to open one of the items listed for Details I get a message stating "Secure Connection Failed. An error occurred during connection to .....
Peer's certificate has an invalid signature. (Error code: sec_err_bad_signature).

Please advise.
Thank you.

HELP PLEASE!!!!

Peer's Certificate issue - Thank You!

Hi Tim,

I did what you had suggested and Opera works great.
Thank you for your help. I'm sure you will be hearing from me again soon. I am trying to figure out Paging but I'm struggling a bit.

Thanks again!

This is a problem with

This is a problem with FireFox 3. When the FireFox 3 project was still being made, they decided that they would absolutely deny access to a website whose security certificate did not match their website's domain name.

There is no way to make FireFox use screen-scraper's proxy on any website in a "https" domain.

The source of trouble is that since the proxy server grabs the certificate from the site, and then passes it to FireFox, FireFox thinks the certificate is coming from "screen-scraper" and not "https://www.someSite.com". FireFox is denying you access because the source of the certificate (the proxy server) isn't the same as where the certificate claims to be from (https://www.someSite.com).

In FireFox 2, you could override this, but in FireFox 3 they don't give you an option, no matter how deep into advanced settings you get.

The only way to proxy that site will be to use a web browser equiped with the ability to handle this. I know that the Opera web browser will do it without a problem: http://www.opera.com/browser/

Opera is different than FireFox. That is to be expected. I've written a "how-to" in order to get an easy setup for Opera's proxy server: http://community.screen-scraper.com/configuring_opera

Due to the site you're trying to scrape, be sure to have the proxy set for use on both "HTTP" and "HTTPS" connections.

Tim