>Betreff: Unable to load root CA into MSIE :(
>
>I created a self-signed CA certificate.
>Now I want to load it into the browser
>
>If browser is Netscape, the script sends Content-Type:
>application/x-x509-ca-cert and a pem encoded version of the ca-cert, in
>case of ie this file is sent as der encoded.
>
>The netscape case works without any problem, but IE always try to save
>certificate file with open/save dialog opening.
>
>Apache has the following line in its config:
>AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert cacert
>
>But it seems do nothing - I'm still not able to load root certificate
>into MSIE :(
>
>
>Anyone could give me an MSIE version example of loading root cert into
>the browser??
>
The problem seems to be that Microsoft has changed the content type of root
CAs. In IE4 you could install a root CA Cert by sending it to the browser as
content type application/x-x509-ca-cert, but in IE5 you must send it as
content type application/pkix-cert.

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