Month: March 2013

Safari Error: “The website requires a client certificate”

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While experimenting with LDAP connections in Safari, errors like this one started popping up:

“The website _____ requires a client certificate”

A dialog would open, listing some old MobileMe certificates. Apparently if any old, expired or corrupt MobileMe certificates are still lodged in the Keychain, you may get this error sometimes. MobileMe has been disabled and signed out on my Mac for years, but the fact that the certs were still there caused the problem.

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WordPress: Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0!

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I’ve been experimenting with LDAP and Cosign login plugins for WordPress. Most of them are out of date and are more or less incompatible with WordPress v.3.5. Usually the first error that comes up is

Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0!

All this means is that instead of using the numerical role identifier argument in a function that adds a menu or submenu, the required capability should be used instead.

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