David Coulson <da...@davidcoulson.net> writes:

> On 3/29/11 12:58 PM, Bruce Stephens wrote:
>> Add the -showcerts option to the s_client commands and you'll see the
>> first server returns a chain of certificates where the second offers
>> only the end server certificate.
> Okay, I see that - Makes sense. When I hit the hostname w/ Firefox I'm
> able to see a complete certificate chain. Where does it get that
> information from?

It'll be built in.  Web browsers have an improbably large number of
certificates (many of them trusted) automatically available in some
way (Firefox has its own database, IE uses some part of the Windows
certificate store).

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