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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 2002 01:56:50 -0500
From:      James <oneiros@darkspire.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSL certificates
Message-ID:  <20020603065649.GA7504@stardust.darkspire.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.41.0206030749300.1748-100000@opium.co.za>
References:  <20020603000526.GA5542@stardust.darkspire.net> <Pine.LNX.4.41.0206030749300.1748-100000@opium.co.za>

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Thus spake Mark Bojara (mark@mics.co.za):

> so do I have to have a physical link to a .pem file or can I use the
> certificate on a SSL site and it will ask them to install it?

    A physical link will do the trick.  For security purposes, clients
    should only accept a new CA certificate when it's explicitly requested,
    or is included in a pack with a client cert they're importing.
    
    Name it something like ca.crt, and make sure the content-type is set
    properly.  Then they can go to http://something/path/to/ca.crt and
    their browser should take care of it automatically.  Wheeee.

    To be safe, look for:
    AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
    in your apache config.

    If you'd like it to be something.pem, just pop in another AddType for
    it.

    HTH.

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