Hi Unfortunetly there's a bug/limitation[1] in the Firefox implementation of that method that means you can't use a self-signed certificate to sign the text. I've already knocked up a patch to fix it, but it seems no one is particularly interested in getting it included.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403909 Regards Stephen On 04/03/2010 09:58, Story Henry wrote: > On another mailing list Caleb pointed out the following: > > On 4 Mar 2010, at 00:29, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: > >> Firefox and Opera Javascript have a method crypto.signText() which apparently will support >> signing of form data on the client side which has a wide array of use cases including >> signing XWikiDocuments in so they can be imported and exported while retaining their author field. >> see: http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6152-10/sgntxt.htm > > This does indeed sound like it could be another very useful application of foaf+ssl. > > Henry > > _______________________________________________ > foaf-protocols mailing list > foaf-protocols(a)lists.foaf-project.org > http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-protocols