GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 794930
Invalid TLS Certificate -> white page with no warning
Last modified: 2018-04-07 02:08:14 UTC
$ minibrowser https://summit.debconf.org/ says Invalid TLS Certificate Failed to load https://summit.debconf.org/: Do you want to continue ignoring the TLS errors? But epiphany just shows a white page. Wouldn't it be better to show a message instead of a white page? Ah in Bug 444844 you say other browsers don't. OK I'll try one...
OK chromium acts like epiphany: no warning. But ... it also loads the page, just fine.
Going to https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/ I get "This Connection is Not Secure" in epiphany-3.26.6-1.fc27.x86_64 with webkitgtk4-2.18.6-1.fc27.x86_64. If it does not for you then please provide exact version info for both.
3.28.0.1 # set https://summit.debconf.org/ # su - nobody -c 'HOME=/tmp/ffd; mkdir -p $HOME; epiphany '$@&
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.20.0-2 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 2.20.0-2
Works for me
The only plausible explanation I can think of is that you might be getting a network process crash loop or something really bad like that, which would prevent even the normal crash page from appearing. This is a wild and unlikely guess, but that's my only guess. Do you see anything showing up in coredumpctl?
is another such URL. In the shell I see Error sending IPC message: Broken pipe On the Inspector I see Failed to load resource: Unacceptable TLS certificate. But on the page itself: all white. There is no coredump message anywhere.
Can you reproduce this issue in an official build (from flathub, or epiphany tech preview)? I've never seen this before. Something seems weird about your system.
Today on amd64 I see This Connection is Not Secure This does not look like the real https://summit.debconf.org. Attackers might be trying to steal or alter information going to or from this site. I will check back on i686...
OK, created https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895099 as bug is only seen on Debian i386/i686.