On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jon Warbrick wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Rod Widdowson wrote:
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>> ... there are some intermediate certs which are in IE but not in firefox.
>
> Additionally, IE seems to be able to use the 'Authority Information Access'
> extension included in some certificates (including JANET SCS ones) to
> automatically retrieve intermediate certificates on the fly. Firefox 2 didn't
> do this; I don't know about Firefox 3.
Firefox 3 is a lot more picky ... if you have a self signed cert
or a cert that's expired F3 makes you jump through hoops to get
the cert accepted!
Cheers
Pete
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> Jon.
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> Jon Warbrick
> Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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