Pidgin + The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated
If in pidgin you get a error
The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is invalid
On connection with msn…..
My guess is the old certificate in pidgins folder is outdated
This is what I did to fix it
cd $HOME/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers
rm omega.contacts.msn.com ows.messenger.msn.com rsi.hotmail.com
wget http://files.andreineculau.com/projects/pidgin/omega.contacts.msn.com.txt
mv omega.contacts.msn.com.txt omega.contacts.msn.com
Restart Pidgin and you should be good to go
NOTE: Can be fixed by deleting certificate from Pidgin menu Tools/Certificate.
ELSE
Also found this method while browsing
Solution
a. open https://omega.contacts.msn.com/
b. On the URL bar, click on the security lock (usually just in front of the URL). Click on the certificate information.
c. Go to the Detail tab and click the “Export” button. Save the file as “omega.contacts.msn.com” (without the quotes).
d. Copy and paste this file to $HOME/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers
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Seems to work.
$ cd ~/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers
$ rm *
$ ls -l
total 0
$ wget http://files.andreineculau.com/projects/pidgin/omega.contacts.msn.com.txt
–2010-11-28 09:53:53– http://files.andreineculau.com/projects/pidgin/omega.contacts.msn.com.txt
Resolving files.andreineculau.com… 173.236.180.105
Connecting to files.andreineculau.com|173.236.180.105|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 2342 (2.3K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `omega.contacts.msn.com.txt’
100%[======================================================>] 2,342 –.-K/s in 0.001s
2010-11-28 09:53:54 (4.03 MB/s) – `omega.contacts.msn.com.txt’ saved [2342/2342]
$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r–r– 1 stripe stripe 2342 2010-11-18 11:16 omega.contacts.msn.com.txt
$ mv omega.contacts.msn.com.txt omega.contacts.msn.com
thanks
I’ve been looking for a fix for while
I just copy pasted ur script into terminal and voila everything was fixed