On Fri, Sep 22, 2000, Mads Toftum 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 ;-)
Ops, correct. Now fixed ;)
Ralf S. Engelschall
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