Exporting Server Certificate to File in Firefox 35

PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 2.04, by Dr. Herong Yang

PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Exporting Server Certificate to File in Firefox 35

This section provides a tutorial example on how to export an HTTPS server certificate to a certificate file in PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) format.

In previous tutorials, I learned how to view an HTTPS server certificate and its certificate path. Now I want to learn how to save a server certificate to a certificate file.

1. Visit https://login.yahoo.com with Firefox 35, and view the server certificate again.

2. Click the "Details" tab on the Certificate Viewer.

3. Click the "Export..." button. The "Save Certificate To File" dialog box shows up.

4. Select "X.509 Certificate (PEM)" in the "Save as type" field. Enter "\temp\yahoo_pem.crt" as the file name.

5. Click the "Save" button. The "*.login.yahoo.com" certificate will be exported into the specified file.

Certificate file types supported by Firefox 35 are:

X.509 Certificate (PEM) (*.crt,*.pem)
X.509 Certificate with chain (PEM) (*.crt,*.pem)
X.509 Certificate (DER) (*.der)
X.509 Certificate (PKCS#7) (*.p7c)
X.509 Certificate with chain (PKCS#7) (*.p7c)

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

►Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

Visiting "https" Web Site with Firefox 35

Viewing Server Certificate in Firefox 35

Server Certificate General Information

Viewing Server Certificate Path in Firefox 35