Pidgin gets certificate error trying to login to MSN.

[jeremyazevedo@gmail.com]

This morning I had trouble logging into MSN via Pidgin. I kept getting the error “The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is invalid."

Seems the folks in Redmond decided to change something overnight, and a few minutes searching turned up this post, which resolved the issue for me. Just wanted to pass it on here for future reference.

http://retrohack.com/why-cant-we-all...ong/#more-3107

The link references Windoz 7, so the path I used on 10.10 is
/home/username/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers

Hope this helps someone out!

[vercellone]

Works as advertised. Much appreciated!

[curVV]

Thanks! =D>

[naqiboy]

Hello
I went to the link https://omega.contacts.msn.com/ but i get :

Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.


any ideas??

[mnichau]

Hello
I went to the link https://omega.contacts.msn.com/ but i get :

Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.


any ideas??

See step 2 at:

http://retrohack.com/why-cant-we-all...ong/#more-3107

[kismeras]

This morning I had trouble logging into MSN via Pidgin. I kept getting the error “The certificate for omega.contacts.msn.com could not be validated. The certificate chain presented is invalid."

Seems the folks in Redmond decided to change something overnight, and a few minutes searching turned up this post, which resolved the issue for me. Just wanted to pass it on here for future reference.

http://retrohack.com/why-cant-we-all...ong/#more-3107

The link references Windoz 7, so the path I used on 10.10 is
/home/username/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers

Hope this helps someone out!

Rock on...thanks

[StarLab]

I *was* having this problem. However, before I could apply the above solution, it worked itself out somehow. <shrug>

[kgr132]

This solution worked exactly as advertised. 60 seconds later, Pidgin is logged in to MSN. Thanks a bunch.

[opm595]

Champion stuff!
Thanks heaps, fixed the problem right away.
Legend Mate!

[wolterh]

This doesn't work for me :S The error persists

[EDIT] After a while it started working, I can't tell how much because I went for a meal and when I came back and retried to connect it worked.