[2589] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: How to add CA's certificate to Navigator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Gradin)
Mon Aug 12 12:23:56 1996
To: etdrc@public.bta.net.cn
cc: ssl-talk@netscape.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu,
Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:30:04 +0800."
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:50:12 +0200
From: Tomas Gradin <tg@bosun.bm.lu.se>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>I generate a certifacte for myself and then use this certificate as a CA to
>sign server site certificates for secure servers in my Intranet.But now I
>face a serious problem: I can't add my CA certificate to Navigator.
...
>Can you tell me how to add a CA's certificate to Netscape?
Make it Content-Type: application/x-x509-ca-cert, and then just get it with
Netscape. Something like this cgi-script in perl, for example:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: application/x-x509-ca-cert\n\n";
print `cat CA-cert`;
/tg
