On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:41:53AM -0500, Steve Luzzi wrote:
>
> Please let me clarify. Our situation is that the CA
> for our cert will be the US Dept. of Defense, thus
> won't be automatically installed in any browser
> until the user/robot successfully accepts the cert.
> We're concerned that the Internet search engines/robots
> will not be able to perform the cert acceptance phase
> and thus stop indexing our data. We want them to continue
> crawling our site if we are required to SSL-enable our
> public information (I understand what SSL does and doesn't
> do for us).
>
> Can anyone answer this question?
It is entirely up to the search engine wether it wants to check
the certificate issuer against a know issuer or not.
To get an example - try asking netcrafts ssl server tester to
connect to the site ... as an example:
http://www.netcraft.com/sslwhats/?host=www.modssl.org
Ralf: your cert has expired ;-)
vh
Mads Toftum
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