Re: Totoise SVN and non-public certificate

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:07, Frank Breedijk
<fbreedijk_at_schubergphilis.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We run an SVN repository protected with a certificate issued by our own internal CA. This CA is added to the windows certificate store and thus these certificates validate nicely when we brows to our svn repository.
>
> However when Tortoise connects to the repository I get this error message:
> Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://svn.xxx.lan/xxx/trunk'
> OPTIONS of 'https://svn.xxx.lan/xxx/trunk': Could not read status line:
>  SSL error: sslv3 alert certificate unknown (https://svn.xxx.lan)
>
> It appears that Tortoise does not use the windows cert store, but an internal certificate store, how do I add the CA certificate to the store or make Tortoise prompt me to accept the certificate?

you also have to add the internal CA to the cert store. Otherwise the
cert in your store can not be validated: the error does not tell you
that there is no certificate, but that the certificate (which is
there, so Subversion found it) is unknown, i.e. not verified.

Stefan

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