Hi, I don't think it has anything to do with the certificate being self- signed, just that it's https.
Are you trying to use https in an ajax call when the page has been loaded via http? If so, you're running into the Same Origin Policy[1], which forbids doing that. Ajax requests, by default, can only go to the same origin as the document in which the script is running, and the concept of an origin includes the protocol (http://example.com and https://example.com are _different_ origins). More in the link. If you're in control of the server, you have a couple of options: 1. Use JSON-P[2] instead of Ajax. JSON-P doesn't have an origin restriction, but it can only use the GET method, not POST. 2. If you can rely on using a modern browser, you can use the new CORS[3] standard. You can see a list of browsers and their support (or lack thereof) for CORS here[4]. Unfortunately, CORS is only supported by IE in IE8 and above, and that support requires extra work (whereas every other browser vendor who supported it did so in a backward- compatible way). Specifically, instead of using XMLHttpRequest (which is what Ajax.Request uses), you have to use a completely new XDomainRequest object instead. But again, only on IE. Note that using CORS requires that you add support for it to the server, because you have to handle a request from the browser asking if it's okay to send the cross-origin request. HTH, -- T.J. Crowder Independent Software Engineer tj / crowder software / com www / crowder software / com [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP#JSONP [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/access-control/ [4] http://caniuse.com/#search=cors On Jun 12, 9:00 am, Rick Avner <rickav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a HTML Application (HTA) using Ajax.Request to get information > from one of my LAMP based server. The requests were working fine > using HTTP. However, the requests are failing (responseText is blank) > when I use HTTPS. Server SSL is enabled using self signed > certificates. > > Is there any way to ignore certificate warnings while using > Ajax.Request? > > I know I should use CA certified certificates on my server. However > just wondering if there is any way for Ajax.Request to work with self > signed certificates. > > I am using prototype.js version 1.5. > > Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
