SSL Certificate and using iTunes or VLC under Mac OS

[Globe199]

I'd like to use iTunes or another music player under Mac OS. But they won't connect to my HTTPS Subsonic server, and I think the problem is that I don't have my own certificate. Is that even correct? It works with Winamp under Windows. That has never had a cert problem. Here is the info in Getting Started at subsonic.org

Note that Subsonic uses a self-signed https certificate by default. This provides encryption but not proper authentication. To use your own certificate you must put it in a Java keystore, then specify the following Java system properties: subsonic.ssl.keystore (path to an alternate SSL keystore), and subsonic.ssl.password (password of the alternate SSL keystore). On Windows, you can set these system properties in C:\Program Files (x86)\Subsonic\subsonic-service.exe.vmoptions.

I completely don't understand any of this. I've generated a cert for use with FileZilla FTP Server. Can I use that?

I've googled this up and down, but haven't found exactly how to get this working under Windows. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks for any info.

[Globe199]

Progress. VLC under Mac OS will allow me to temporarily accept a certificate. Streaming works! This must be a newer thing, because a few years ago when I tried it, it never even offered that.

Question now is: is there a way to force VLC to permanently accept the cert?

[manwithaplan]

Yes there is, get a real, trusted, root-signed cert and VLC will stop popping an error at you. You can get a cert these days for 50 bucks from GoDaddy or other places, it's well worth it for any web serving activity you may do.