by: Paul Horowitz
The latest versions of Safari for Mac have changed how a person might find SSL certificate information for a particular website, something that is commonly needed in web development, information security, and developmental web work in general. While in prior versions of Safari you could simply click on the little padlock icon next to the domain name in the address bar, Apple seems to have removed that padlock icon, thereby removing that as an easy way to get SSL certificate details for any domain.
If you work in web development, information security, web work, hosting, IT, tech support, devops, systems administration, or any number of other technical fields that rely on functioning SSL certificates and verifying them, you might want to know how to find and view the full SSL certificate information details in modern versions of Safari for Mac, and that’s what we’ll show you here.
