Ideaj wants to download from server with self-signed certificate.

When opening my project this morning for the first time on a new box, I got repeated ( 10 to 20 ) requests to accept a self-signed certificate from somebody from whom I was apparently downloading something.

There was no indication of whether this was related to a plug in, or to a library that my code uses.  There was no indication of what URL it was attempting to hit, nor why it was making this attempt.

Whether the self-signed certificate turns out to be your issue or mine, I think there are a couple of interface issues that could be worked on.  Were I to display such a dialog box from my code, I would probably do a couple of things differently:

1) I would display the URL that delivered the certificate, and an explanation of why I wanted to hit it.

2) I would offer an option for the user to inform the program that he would never, ever, accept that certificate, and make it stop asking.

3) I would offer an option to set a policy that self-signed certificates were a non-starter, unless and until the user indicated otherwise.

Has anybody else seen this?  I compiled the program with gradle, and did not get any warnings about self-signed certificates, so it is probably not Maven.  The Gradle guys don't seem to be the sort that would fail to warn me about such a thing.  They MIGHT be the sort to say “homey don't play that”, and not trouble me about it.

Opening the project in Android Studio displayed 2 of these warnings, rather than 10-20.

I'm hoping that is not because Gradle blindly accepted the cert.

Details:  I downloaded this fresh copy of Idea, as well as the the coy of Studio.

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