How to remove security exceptions in Edge

Question

I'm using Edge version 88.  I recently chose to proceed to a website despite the fact that the certificate was out-of-date.  How do I remove that exception?  I got as far as the following, but nothing I click on seems to show me exceptions.  I'm not a security expert, so I may be staring at a list of exceptions without recognizing them.

Answer 1

How do I remove that exception?  

What 'exception' are you referring to? If you visit a site whose certificate has expired, Edge will show you a warning saying so, but giving you the option to visit it anyway - sysadmins (even at Microsoft) sometimes forget to renew certificates, but it doesn't usually take long for them to realize their omission and correct it. The fact that you once visited a particular site whose certificate had expired will not be remembered, so you should see the same warning each time you visit it in a new browser session. 

You can check whether the certificate is valid by clicking on the icon at the left-hand end of the address bar. If the certificate is in order, the icon will be a padlock. Depending on your version of Edge, either you will see the certificate icon on the pop-down window that opens, or you have to click on the Connection is secure message to see it. Click on the icon; the certificate's expiry date is given on the General tab of the dialogue.

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Answer 2

I just tried adding the certificate exception again, then confirmed that the exception is still present after closing and reopening Edge.  I then closed Edge and navigated to the Trusted and Untrusted Publishers tab, but there are no items in those two tables.

Are you sure that Edge stores certificate exceptions there?  I'm wondering if that might be from the Internet Explorer days.

Answer 3

I have done some research on this and if you go to "certmgr.msc" (Certificate Manager) that is where all the certificates are stored regardless of the browser. Can you check under all dropdowns there to see if you can find that?

To access the Certificate manager Press Windows key + R and type "certmgr.msc" in the dialog box and hit ok.

Answer 4

Thanks, Ru!  I navigated certmgr.msc, and the closest thing I could find was "Untrusted Certificates".  However, the list is short, and it doesn't look relevant to a certificate that expired mere days ago.  It also doesn't show a domain name (I know the domain name of the site for which I created a certificate exception).

Would you know how certificate exceptions manifest themselves in certmgr.msc?

Answer 5

According to my research, it is sent to certmgr.msc by the browser itself. I could not find a detailed explanation on the process how this works.

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