ya one thing to say ..

have u enabled following directive for those all domains 

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
         nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
         downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0       
and then try

hth 

--- Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been playing around with the apache and our virtual hosts.  I am
>well aware that I could have different certs for each IP address if I
>were using IP based virtual hosting but I'm using name based virtual
>hosts.
>
>I host a variety of domains which are not at all subdomains of my main 
>domain.  What I would like to do is have one cert for all my domains.
>
>I sort of have it working with name based virtual hosting, but in some
>cases, I get the following warning in Internet Explorer:
>
>"The name on the security certificate does not match the name of the
>site."
>
>It appears that some web browsers, Netscape for example, support a *
>as a wild card in the CN.  For example CN=*grant.org.  There's also
>some talk on Microsoft's web site of some versions of IE supporting
>this too.  Though, apparently not 5.01 running on windows 98 or me. 
>
>The cases seem to be:
>
>1) I generate a cert with CN=grant.org.  No complaints when I connect
>to https://grant.org.  Both Netscape & IE complain if I connect to
>www.grant.org or any other of my domains.
>
>2) I generate a cert with CN=*grant.org.  No complaints when I connect 
>to https://www.grant.org or https://grant.org from Netscape.  IE
>complains that the name is incorrect.  I can import the self-signed
>cert into both IE's and Netscape's trusted root ca list.
>
>3) I generate a cert with CN=*.  No complaints when I connect to any
>of my domains with Netscape, however IE complains that the name is
>incorrect.  I can import the self-signed cert into Netscape's trusted
>root ca list but NOT IE's.
>
>Can someone tell me if there is a right way to generate a cert that
>works with more than one site with the various different browsers out
>there? 
>
>Michael Grant
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