MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_REQUIRED_TLS_FEATURE_MISSING

If you get the following message in Mozilla Firefox:

MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_REQUIRED_TLS_FEATURE_MISSING

Cause

According to Mozilla, this is a rare problem caused by OCSP stapling not being correctly configured in the SSL handshakes.

If you use HSTS in combination with OCSP-must-staple, you're effectively enforcing "HSTS for OCSP stapling". If you then, for example, have done a fresh installation and the certificates are renewed (without the OCSP server being up-to-date), you have a problem.

This is because Firefox gets the HSTS updates from Google and that can take some time.

Solution

The solution is to:

  1. Not use OCSP-MUST-STAPLE and/or STAPLE-OCSP.
  2. Or only enable this after Google has passed the HSTS information to Mozilla.

Just waiting 3 months also works, but it usually goes faster. 😉

Good luck!

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