Enable display of SSL-secured feeds

When using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet, some feeds that use HTTP over SSL (HTTPS) might not function properly due to missing SSL certificates. You might encounter errors, such as Missing certificate, Unknown certificate, or Untrusted certificate because of missing root signer certificates or missing self-signed certificates in the certificate truststore. In both the cases, you need to add the appropriate certificates to the certificate truststore.

In order to add the appropriate certificates, have Administrator access to WebSphere Portal installation.

Add the missing certificates:

  1. Obtain the missing certificates.

      There are various mechanisms for doing this depending on the type of certificate that is missing. In general, the quickest way to obtain the missing certificate is to access the feed you are trying to add directly from a web browser. All modern browsers provide the capability to view a certificate and its trust chain. However, the directions for viewing and exporting certificates from a web browser are browser vendor specific and therefore outside the scope of this document (except to say that they should be exported in Base-64 encoded format as a file with the extension .cer or .arm). If you need assistance with this task, please contact IT administrator. There are also many online resources that can help you complete this task. In the case of self-signed certificates, you might be prompted with several warnings regarding the acceptance or trust of this certificate. In such cases, please ensure that you trust the third-party server before adding the certificate to certificate truststore.

  2. Once you have exported the appropriate root signer or self-signed certificate, please refer to the instructions in the Adding a signer certificate to a keystore topic to import the root signer certificate or to import the self signed certificate as a new trusted signer certificate to the appropriate truststore.

  3. Restart the WebSphere_Portal server.


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Work with IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet for WebSphere Portal
Additional information for using IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet
Client side aggregation (CSA) rendering in IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet


Related tasks


Configure proxy settings
Customize the portlet title
Configure cookies and active content filtering

Add a signer certificate to a keystore

  Made trust store one word.


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