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+ \section1 Managing Certificates
+
+ Qt WebEngine uses its own network stack, and therefore QSslConfiguration is not used to
+ open SSL connections. Instead, Qt WebEngine uses the root CA certificates from the operating
+ system to validate the peer's certificate.
+
+ The \l{WebEngineCertificateError::error} and \l{QWebEngineCertificateError::Error} enumerations
+ provide information about the types of certificate errors that might occur. The errors can be
+ handled by using the WebEngineView::certificateError QML method or by reimplementing the
+ QWebEnginePage::certificateError function.
+
\section1 Using WebEngine Core
Qt WebEngine Core provides an API shared by Qt WebEngine and Qt WebEngine Widgets for handling