Nelson,

Thanks for the info. I'm gonna go check out those Netscape reference docs
right away.


"Nelson B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Mike Stokes wrote:
> > I'm new to the Netscape/Firefox/Mozilla platform and I've been tasked
with
> > providing a programmatic method for our customers to use to install
client
> > certificates. I'm looking for suggestions on how to approach a solution.
> > Java applet? Extension? Plug-in?
>
> None of the above.  The functionality is built right in to the browser.
> A simple HTML is all that is needed to get the browser to generate a
> Certificate signing request, and another simple "page" (er, MIME content
> type) is all that's needed to download the user's new cert chain.
>
> This functionality is all inherited from the older Netscape browsers,
> and much of the original Netscape documentation on this subject still
> applies.  Look at
>
> http://wp.netscape.com/eng/security/comm4-keygen.html
> http://wp.netscape.com/eng/security/comm4-cert-download.html
>
> You can ask more questions here.
>
> -- 
> Nelson B


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