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Hi Anton, Thanks. I actually got help from Mzll103 on the midrangedotcom chat room yesterday. IE5 does allow me to view the certificate; the problem was terminology. The error message refers to the site name; the MS certificate view refers to an "Issued to:" name, or if you check the "Subject" details, the CN (Common Name). That gives one side of it. The other side was what I was misunderstanding. Since the message said "name of the site", for some reason I started looking at my host table, then the server name in the Apache configuration, etc. -- it didn't occur to me it was referring to the URL. Once I got that through my head, it was simple to issue a correct certificat. Peter Dow Dow Software Services, Inc. 909 793-9050 voice 909 522-3214 cellular 909 793-4480 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton Gombkötö" <gombkoetoe@ASSOFT.COM> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [WEB400] "The name on the security certificate does not match the name of the site." Had this today as we renewed our certificate and swapped from assoftw.avenum.com to www.avenum.com in the certificate. AFAIK: The client compares the value from the certificate, e.g. www.mysite.com with the name from a DNS request for the IP. So when this delivers e.g. myserver.mysite.com there's a difference and the browser warns you. Mozilla delviers a better error message than Internet Explorer; it was clear then for me.
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