Viewing Server Certificate in Chrome 40

This section provides a tutorial example on how to view server certificate details when visiting an 'https' Web site in Chrome 40.

When you visit an "https" Web server, it will send its certificate to your browser. Server's certificate is needed by the browser for these 2 tasks:

Normally, your browser will do these 2 tasks automatically without your interaction. You don't need to know where is the server certificate and what's in the certificate.

But since I am interested to learn more about "https" communication, I want to see the server certificate. Here is what did on Chrome 40 to see details of the server certificate.

1. Run Chrome 40 and go to https://login.yahoo.com and wait for the log in page to be displayed.

2. Click the lock icon at the left side of the URL address area. The page security dialog box shows up.

3. Click the "Connection" tab. The connection security information is displayed.

4. Click the "Certificate information" link. The Certificate dialog box shows up. The General tab tells me this information:

This certificate is intended for the following purpose(s): 
 - Ensure the identity of a remote computer
 - Proves your identify to a remote computer

Issued to: *.login.yahoo.com

Issued by: VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3

Valid from 4/7/2014 to 4/9/2015

Cool. Now I see a real server certificate for commercial uses. The picture below shows you steps to see the certificate:

Certificate General View - Chrome 40
Viewing Server Certificate on Chrome 40

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

 Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer) 10

Using HTTPS with Chrome 40

 Visiting "https" Web Site with Chrome 40

Viewing Server Certificate in Chrome 40

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in Chrome 40

 Exporting Server Certificate to File in Chrome 40

 Viewing Trusted Root CA Certificates in Chrome 40

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in Chrome 40

 Exporting Root Certificate to File from Chrome 40

 Deleting Root CA Certificates from Chrome 40

 Chrome 40 Shares Windows PKI with IE

 Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Certificate Stores and Certificate Console

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word 2007

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version