Friday, 19 November 2010

pidgin - Unable to validate certificate error

If you are having the 'Unable to validate certificate' error from pidgin then do the following:

  1. go to here, download the certificate omega.contacts.msn.com.pem
  2. in pidgin go to tools/certificates
  3. delete the cert omega.contacts.msn.com.pem
  4. add the new downloaded cert
  5. and away you go
UPDATE - or as I have said in the comment, now you can download the new version with a fix - see or better still update to the latest version that now has the fix - http://www.pidgin.im/

2 comments:

Abdul said...

Thanks man that SSL Certificate validation was bugging for a week...
Keep up the Good work

Bill Comer said...

or better still update to the latest version that now has the fix - http://www.pidgin.im/