Not sure if it's an isolated problem I'm having, but I'm trying to initiate an SSL connection to a work-related webserver.
The server itself is a Microsoft 2000 Server running IIS 5.0 and is using a certificate generated by the Certificate Authority Services (also part of Microsoft 2000 Server). Since it's a self-generated certificate only needed to set up an encrypted connection and the only people needing to connect would be work-related people, there isn't a burning need to run out and pay for a validated certificate from Thawte or others.
Here's the problem:
Logging in on a Windoze box gives the prompt that the "certificate is issued by a company you have chosen not to trust" but that the certificate has been issued by the website and is a valid one. If I continue, I get an SSL connection going.
However, under IE 5.1 on OS X, I get the following message.
"Unable to establish a secure connection to the site. There is a problem with the security certificate from <site name>(The identity certificate issuer is unknown.) Information you view and send will be readable to others while in transit, and may not go to the intended party."
If I continue, I get a connection but it's not encrypted.
How can I force acceptance of the "untrusted" certificate?
Thanks in advance.
The server itself is a Microsoft 2000 Server running IIS 5.0 and is using a certificate generated by the Certificate Authority Services (also part of Microsoft 2000 Server). Since it's a self-generated certificate only needed to set up an encrypted connection and the only people needing to connect would be work-related people, there isn't a burning need to run out and pay for a validated certificate from Thawte or others.
Here's the problem:
Logging in on a Windoze box gives the prompt that the "certificate is issued by a company you have chosen not to trust" but that the certificate has been issued by the website and is a valid one. If I continue, I get an SSL connection going.
However, under IE 5.1 on OS X, I get the following message.
"Unable to establish a secure connection to the site. There is a problem with the security certificate from <site name>(The identity certificate issuer is unknown.) Information you view and send will be readable to others while in transit, and may not go to the intended party."
If I continue, I get a connection but it's not encrypted.
How can I force acceptance of the "untrusted" certificate?
Thanks in advance.
