Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Invalid State
A quick adventure in Aaron the dumbass:
I'm requesting an SSL certificate. I make the request on the server (IIS6), and plug in the information on Verisign's website. The result: "Error 950b - Invalid State." I tried several variations on a theme and get the same result - invalid state. I interpret this error as the certificate has an invalid "condition..., as with respect to circumstances or attributes."* So I dig through Verisign's knowledge base to find that I have to spell out Maryland, not use MD. I go back through the process, and then notice the blurb on the Geographical Information pane: "State/province and City/locality must be complete, official names and may not contain abbreviations." I also double-check my documentation: Maryland.
After I got over my stupidness, I thought it was amusing that I assumed one definition of the word state, instead of "a politically unified people occupying a definite territory"* as Verisign intended.
* All definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com
I'm requesting an SSL certificate. I make the request on the server (IIS6), and plug in the information on Verisign's website. The result: "Error 950b - Invalid State." I tried several variations on a theme and get the same result - invalid state. I interpret this error as the certificate has an invalid "condition..., as with respect to circumstances or attributes."* So I dig through Verisign's knowledge base to find that I have to spell out Maryland, not use MD. I go back through the process, and then notice the blurb on the Geographical Information pane: "State/province and City/locality must be complete, official names and may not contain abbreviations." I also double-check my documentation: Maryland.
After I got over my stupidness, I thought it was amusing that I assumed one definition of the word state, instead of "a politically unified people occupying a definite territory"* as Verisign intended.
* All definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com
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Strange. I first interpreted state to mean "a condition or stage in the physical being of something, as in the gaseous state of water" [m-w.com].
I would have replaced "MD" with "solid." Glad I wasn't requesting the cert. ;-)
I would have replaced "MD" with "solid." Glad I wasn't requesting the cert. ;-)
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: 4:52 PM 
I too jumped to the conclusion that they meant an "invalid state [of being]" rather than the "invalid [united] state". Googled and found your blog and it helped me avoid pulling my hair out for hours! THANKS!!
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