IBM Verse on iOS works with self-signed certificates
In the official documentation for Traveler, is said this “IBM Traveler servers must support SSL/TLS and have a valid certificate. For security reasons, the app will not connect to a server with a self-signed, expired or otherwise untrusted certificate, nor will it connect to a server configured for HTTP rather than HTTPS.”
Well…. is not really true. I am using Verse on my iPad and connect to my Domino server, which has a self-signed certificate. Here are the steps needed to make this work.
- Use a browser and access your mail, in this example I am using Firefox. When you see the page, click on the lock icon next to the address
- Click on “More information” then on “View certificates” and then on the “Details” tab. There you see a button “Export”, click on it and export the certificate in crt format.
- Import this certificate into the device, for example sending it via mail. Whe you read the mail and click in the attached certificate, the procedure for adding a profile will start. Follow the instructions and you will find a new profile with the name of the exported certificate in the device.
Now Verse will let you connect to your mail server.
Alejandro de las Heras
30th October 2015 - 16:47
After installing the certificate, Verse still denies to connect. Profile installs successfully but Verse doesn’t allow me to connect 🙁
iOS 9.1 on iPad
Roberto Boccadoro
30th October 2015 - 16:52
Do you get the same error message as before importing the certificate ?
Antonio Gratch
15th December 2016 - 17:56
Same her. I installed the certificate but same error message. By the way there are several possibilities for certificates: PEM, DER, PKCS#7. I used PEM and it did not work. Do you have an suggestions? Thank you in advance.
Roberto Boccadoro
19th December 2016 - 15:17
I used CRT format
Antonio Gratch
19th December 2016 - 15:19
Thanks. But there is no possibility to select CRT format.
Roberto Boccadoro
19th December 2016 - 15:25
Yes, there is, in Firefox export as pem
Antonio Gratch
19th December 2016 - 15:28
Ah ok. That I have tried but it did not work. I imported it in iOS but still Verse did not accept it.
Roberto Boccadoro
19th December 2016 - 15:36
You successfully imported your server certificate in iOS, right ?
And what error do you get when trying to access your mail with Verse ? What did you specify as server name when configuring Verse ? It has to be the same name of the certificate
Thomas Bahn
30th June 2020 - 12:00
Hi Roberto,
do you have current experiences with this: 2020 or at least 2019, HCL Verse App, iOS 13.5.*?
roberto
30th June 2020 - 14:47
Hi Thomas, no I don’t. I have a pretty old iPad and doesn’t support iOS 13 so I can’t test it.