Re: credential files

mark wrote:
Nigel Wade wrote:
m.roth2006@xxxxxxx wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how a browser recognizes that a cite is
asking for a
credential file, and hands it back to it?

For example, I go to a site, and firefox suddenly says "this sites
wants a credential -
is this the credential that you want to give it?" I've used a plugin
that shows me http
headers and responses, and see nothing where that happens.

Links? Pointers? Clues for the poor?
What sort of credentials are you talking about? Is this SSL (https) with
client certificate verification? If so it's part of the initial SSL
handshake. The server asks the client to prove that it is who it says it
is by supplying a valid, authenticated, certificate.

YES! Please, please, HOW DOES IT ASK? Can I provide that in the original get,
as additional headers, or do I have to wait for a response, and then provide it?

It's not up to the client. If the server is configured to require a client cert it will request it. If it isn't it won't. If it requests a client cert. then you need to supply one or the connection will fail. How you supply the client cert. to the client software is completely determined by the client software.

Google would be your best option. If you are using PERL SSLeay then this page might help:
http://search.cpan.org/~sampo/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25/SSLeay.pm

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