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Lots of cert errors when running Firefox with httptap #17

@klausman

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---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html (90 bytes)
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4 (8 bytes)
error reading http request over tls server conn: remote error: tls: unknown certificate authority, aborting
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html (90 bytes)
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4 (8 bytes)
error reading http request over tls server conn: remote error: tls: unknown certificate authority, aborting
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html (90 bytes)
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4 (8 bytes)
error reading http request over tls server conn: remote error: tls: unknown certificate authority, aborting
error reading http request over tls server conn: remote error: tls: unknown certificate authority, aborting
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html (90 bytes)
---> GET https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4
<--- 200 https://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt?ipv4 (8 bytes)

In Firefox itself, I get a lot of "oh no, MITM!" type errors, so my suspicion is that the CA injection doesn't quite work right there. Whether that is within scope for httptap, I of course don't know.

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