Hi,

Of course you can (or should, actually) do that. I wast just talking about the 
pre-defined list of CAs that the browser trust. Sorry if I wasn't clear. English is 
not my native language.

Best regards,
Sebastian


Michael Sierchio  (9/16/2001  6:48 PM):
>Sebastian Paul Avarvarei wrote:
>
>> No browser will consider a self-signed certificate as being automatically trusted. 
>From the application's point of view, the default trusted certificates are those 
>signed by CAs that the producer of the application has chosen to trust. Everything 
>else is up to user's decision if to trust or not.
>
>You can easily load a self-signed cert as a CA cert into the browser
>by presenting it with the appropriate MIME type:  application/x-x509-ca-cert
>
>This will prompt the user through a series of dialogs which will add
>it to the list of trusted signers.
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