Failed to validate certificate. The application will not be executed

Ignition
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Hi,

I've been seeing a recurrent issue when opening the designer or client in 7.9. Sometimes I get this "Failed to validate certificate. The application will not be executed"

certError

I've tried look for more info regarding this, but I haven't been able to find anything.

And strange thing is it usually fixes by itself after a couple of hours.

Does anyone know what may be causing this?

More details on the error:

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ava.security.cert.CertificateException: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: OCSP response error: MALFORMED_REQUEST
	at com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker.checkOCSP(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker.check(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.checkRevocationStatus(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.getValidationState(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.validateChain(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGrantedInt(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.TrustDecider.isAllPermissionGranted(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.security.AppPolicy.grantUnrestrictedAccess(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.security.JNLPSignedResourcesHelper.checkSignedResourcesHelper(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.security.JNLPSignedResourcesHelper.checkSignedResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
	Suppressed: com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker$StatusUnknownException
		at com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker.checkCRLs(Unknown Source)
		... 19 more
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: OCSP response error: MALFORMED_REQUEST
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.OCSPResponse.verify(Unknown Source)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.OCSP.check(Unknown Source)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.OCSP.check(Unknown Source)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.OCSP.check(Unknown Source)
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.OCSP.check(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker$2.run(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker$2.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at com.sun.deploy.security.RevocationChecker.doPrivilegedOCSPCheck(Unknown Source)
	... 20 more

Thanks

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Given the intermittent nature of it, and from experience when this error has been seen in the past, I'd say it's a transient network/firewall issue that is causing the malformed request.

You could consider using the native client launchers instead, as the JNLP/webstart launching has been removed from future versions of Ignition anyway.