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certificates

Hi, I have a question about certificates. I'm having problems with one saving
as html and dispaying garbage when clicked. I copied the certificate over
from an old web server. What's preventing me from getting it to work?
[242 byte] By [Aaron] at [2007-11-9 23:52:18]
# 1 Re: certificates
Hi,
Though I am not quite sure of what you are trying to do, I have a few observations:
1. You cannot just "copy the certificate over from an old web server"; that
certificate (I assume you are speaking about a server certificate here) is
useless without the corresponding private key. You need to export that private
key as well to reuse the certificate.
2. Also note that in case your old certificate has expired then too it will
be useless.

In case you provide more details about your web server, kind of application
etc. then maybe we can get specific.

Regards,

Arvind S.
BrainBench MVP for Internet Security.

"Aaron" <aaron.dewald@ubb.com> wrote:
>
>Hi, I have a question about certificates. I'm having problems with one
saving
>as html and dispaying garbage when clicked. I copied the certificate over
>from an old web server. What's preventing me from getting it to work?
Arvind S at 2007-11-12 0:14:40 >