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Self-signed certificate error when `Use HTTPS for GUI` is enabled
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- Objective-C
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Description
The app is amazing and overall rock solid. Amazing for a free app so thanks for the development efforts. Certainly works better than iCloud Drive! I have a couple of sort of related q's/requests, which i'll make separate issues.
How do i avoid this certificate issue when I use 'open' from the menubar? It happens every week or so.
I have a self signed certificate i presumably created when i installed the app. Every time this happens i view it and change it to 'Always Trust' but it always occurs again. And i always select stay logged in when it asks me to login after this.
(I'm mostly using open to view the sync status of my shared folders, which i think would be very useful info to have in the menubar, the subject of my other issue)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the self-signed certificate prompt when using “open” from the menubar with “Use HTTPS for GUI” enabled, then inspect how certificate trust and the stay-logged-in choice behave. Done means the certificate error no longer recurs and the user can open the GUI without repeated login prompts.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100