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Problem Solved, See http://tech.kateva.org/2010/04/os-x-parental-controls-https-bug.html

When I use parental controls on my Kids accounts to "try and limit access to adult websites" Safari gives me an error when trying to reach secure "https" websites. I'm trying to determine if this is a bug in OS X. I'm wondering if others get this same result. Is there anyone out there that...

The firewall in not enabled, should it be, I assume not

It doesn't show up in the logs of the parental controls because its not being blocked by parental controls. Rather when the parental controls are set to "try to limit adult content" something changes so that an error is created when going to "https" sites. Initially I thought the sites were...

I allowed http//:www.gmail.com, http//:www.google.come, and https// but I still get the same result. Is that what you meant? I also tried to go to google.com first and then to gmail but I still get the same error from gmail. I can get to http//:www.google.com with out any trouble but if I try...

There is an additional setting that lets you specify which sites can and can't be accessed even if I specify an htpps site should be allowed, safari still has the same problem

For several of the accounts on my iMac, I've set parental controls to "try and limit access to adult content" When I do this, Safari stops being able to access "https" websites such as gmail.com etc. If I set the parental controls setting to "unrestricted access" the problem goes away. I...