[72] in Project_DB
Re: Delivery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Thu Mar 27 20:44:31 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:47:55 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
From: rferrara@MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Cc: jlittell@MIT.EDU, project-db@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU
Bill & Co, that fixed it. Once I destroyed the first "stale" certificate
and the second newer one for good measure, it worked. By the way, I was in
Baltimore or otherwise would have replied sooner.
Thanks, Bob
At 11:21 PM 3/26/97, Bill Cattey wrote:
>As Mike surmises, you must (for reasons, I believe owing to bugs in
>Netscape) destroy your old certificate before getting a new certificate,
>otherwise the new one doesn't work.
>
>From the Netscape "Options" menu select "Security Options".
>Got to the "Personal Certificates" folder.
>
>Select your MIT certificate, and destroy it.
>Then try getting a new one.
>
>It is NOT the case that the server is down, because I just successfully
>connected to the projects database, both directly through
>https://arachne and through the Project Database pages.
>
>If destroying the old certificate and getting a new one fails, try going
>directly to https://arachne and confirming that that avenue does not
>work.
>
>If it does work, hold down the shift key and hit REload on the Delivery
>web page.
>(IE force it to update with extra teeth.)
>
>-wdc
