[2234] in WWW Security List Archive
PCT and SSL on the same socket?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen de Borst)
Wed Jun 12 16:30:34 1996
From: Jeroen de Borst <jeroen@hprc.tandem.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:00:15 +0200 (MST)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I have a question about PCT.
According to Microsoft IE 3.0 supports SSL 3.0, SSL 2.0 and PCT 1.0.
How is PCT activated? URL's with "https" start SSL sessions
in exactly the same way that Netscape 3.0 starts them (it is
actually sends a SSL 2.0 hello message that indicates that
SSL 3.0 sessions are welcome).
Is there a different URL scheme for PCT connections?
I may be wrong but it seems that "https" can't support both
SSL and PCT. A server talking SSL 2.0 and PCT would not be able
to tell the difference between IE (that talks PCT) and
Netscape (that doesn't).
Also: are there any "PCT only" products out there?
If you answer please copy me personally,
cheers,
Jeroen de Borst
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