A few additional comments to make that clearer: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: > I noticed, that in the first section under "IE Current Usage", it says > that IE will _always_ use that certificate (or lack of certificate) for > that site. Only in the second part this is corrected with "IE will > always use that certificate to authenticate, until the user _closes_ IE or > hits the 'Clear SSL Cache' button. But again in the last section it says > "Find all the certificates, present them to the user, remember the > user's selection _forever_" which isn't correct. > See the underlined content. Once it says "always", then until the user "closes" IE and then again "forever". In short IE will prompt for the certificate again after one closes IE. > However this page leads me to something else actually. When a browser > doesn't have the complete chain installed in the browser, client auth > fails - and this even if the server presents the complete chain as > expected to the browser. Additionally, if the chain is missing or no > client certificate is installed in the browser, some error like -12777 > pops up (Don't remember the correct number right now). This of course is > less then helpful for the ones in the unknown.... > The section above is about Mozilla/Firefox, not about IE. This wasn't very clear in my post.
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