Guys,

I'm trying to set up an Apache server to share SSL sites
and certificates.  So far with not much luck.  Following
Nelson's earlier description, I've turned off SSL v2 in all
the browsers I've tested with (Firefox and Konqueror),
and also I've turned it off in the Apache web server
(Apache 2 on Linux).

But the Apache web server still insists on presenting only
one certificate (even though it has accepted the various
other SSL sites in the vhosts config).  Why that is is another
story, but there is one furfie I noticed with Firefox in this:

When Firefox goes to one of the non-default sites, it is
presented with the default cert and indicates it is wrong.
I then click through and accept it, so https is opened up
on the site.  But, down in the bottom right, instead of
displaying the correct details about the certificate that
is in use, it displays the host name that we went to.

Further, a mouse-over displays "Signed by ThisCA".
I think this part is "correct" and that the hostname displayed
is the wrong one taken from the wrong place - the URL
and not the cert.  (The statement made should be that
the cert is CertName signed by CertAuthority as that is
the only thing that is known for sure.)

This can be seen by going to http://koalagold.com/ and
clicking through.  The cert presented is not koalagold's
but is financialcryptography's.  The bottom right shows
koalagold.com and a mousover of "Signed by CACert."

Now one caveat, the Firefox I tested this on is 1.0 on a
Linux box.  So before filing a bug on this ... is this fixed
in later versions?  (I have no access to a later Firefox at
the moment.)

iang
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