Invalid or no certificate authority found, using bundled information

Using Connect 6, the FB plugin and my site is an HTTPS always-on site, I had experienced the following issue:

In IE when trying to login with FB (after being connected) it would return a blank page. In FF, the error that was returned was "Invalid or no certificate authority found, using bundled information."

This is what I did to get it going again. Not sure if it is the proper thing to do, just listing the changes I made. I no longer have the login issues.

I stumbled across this site, stackoverflow.com/questions/7374223/invalid-or-no-certificate-authority-found-using-bundled-information

It states that if you add to base_facebook.php, under line 140 it will resolve the issue for HTTPS sites.

base_facebook.php is located in
{BASE}/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbconnect/hybridauth/thirdparty/Facebook

The Facebook cert is included with the API. So it shouldn't be doing that. The bundled Facebook API is Facebooks library so it would seam to be a bug in Facebooks API library. Likely won't be fixed until HybridAuth has been updated to v2 API library.

That has been the sentiment around the forums, that this is a FB API issue. I just wanted to make sure that my change wasn't creating an unintentional consequence. With more and more sites moving to an always-on HTTPS protocol I assume that other users may run into this issue too.

EDIT: There are other sites that talk about this issue too, but most of the responses have been to turn off SSL, which is horrible advice. Sure, it would fix your issue, but so does adding a single line of code.

I believe this isn't an issue for their v2 API, but v2 is PHP 5.4+ only so it creates a list of problems on its own. HybridAuth will hopefully see a new release in the coming months before v1 is discontinued in April of next year. Until then your fix seams completely acceptable and will go ahead and implement the fix into CB Connect so you won't have to keep doing it on each release (fix should be in todays nightly).