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Hello again,
The way our program works, we can have two or more different webView + webControl objects in different tabs. When the CertificateError event happens for one of the webViews, and the e.Continue() method is called, it seems to also affect the other webView object, making the CertificateError event not happen again for either webViews. This is normal for the one whose CertificateError event got handled properly, but it doesn't seem normal for the other CertificateError event.
Basically, is it normal that doing e.Continue() in the CertificateError event of one webView affects the CertificateError event of another webView? Is this a bug? Is there a way around it?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
We have looked into this issue. The reason that it works this way is because the browser engine stores a map of <host, certificate, ignore_state>. If a certificate error is acknowledged and accepted (this is what e.Continue() does), it won't be prompted again. This does make sense with a normal web browser since a browser does not want to ask the user again and again for the same error. If this map did not exist, then the browser will be asking user again and again not only for multiple pages from the same site, but for multiple resource requests (JavaScript, styles, images, etc) within the same page. Obviously the later would not be acceptable from the user's point of view. Since our product is directly based on Chrome's source code, we inherited this logic as well.
Thanks!
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I definitely understand the logic, although I would have thought it would be separated if it was a different webView+webControl. Luckily for us, though, it has a very minor impact in the functions of our application.
Thank you very much for the quick reply!
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