Hi Mr. Waters,
I got it all straightened out. I had just not converted to the right
key/certificate format, etc.
Did, however, run into a bug where Apache won't support POST with client
authentication. I've been advised to downgrade Apache.
Dave.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P Larkin Waters
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:11 AM
> To: modssl-users@modssl.org
> Subject: Re: Client Certificates (Help!)
>
>
> did you use a real certificate?
> if you used a test certificate did you install the test certificate
> authority?
> I'm sure you know that test certificates don't work with the CA's that
> come preinstalled in most browsers.
>
>
> Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.
> Practice is when something works, but you don't know why.
> Programmers combine theory and practice:
> Nothing works and they don't know why.
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> - Original Message -
> From: "David T. Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:29 PM
> Subject: Client Certificates (Help!)
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have any good URLs or instructions about how to create
> client
> > certificates for browsers so that only browsers with the certificate
> can
> > connect to the server (or view certain directories on the server)?
> >
> > I tried one procedure I found on the web, and it ended up with Apache
> > complaining about the keys and certificates it had. The best I could
> do
> > myself was a self-signed SSL certificate (which worked fine), but the
> client
> > certificates didn't work out.
> >
> > I'll try any procedures anyone supplies, and if that doesn't work I'll
> post
> > detailed information about what I tried and what went wrong.
> >
> > The site, by the way, is www.e-collab.com. The self-signed SSL
> certificate
> > for Apache worked fine. It was just the more advanced stuff that
> eluded me.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Merry Christmas!
> >
> > Dave Ashley.
> >
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