[THIN] Re: Tip of the Week: Easy way for users to install Microsoft Certificate from your Web Interface
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:45:35 -0700
Agreed. Verisign is over priced.. But Jim, why not use another provider?
SSL certs cost $20-$50 these days. Private certs are OK, but they come
with their own set of issues (distribution, End user support, etc).
Joe
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:38 PM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Tip of the Week: Easy way for users to install Microsoft
Certificate from your Web Interface
$1300 for an SSL cert ...... is that for real ?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Kenzig <http://ThinHelp.com> http://ThinHelp.com
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:56 PM
Subject: [THIN] Tip of the Week: Easy way for users to install Microsoft
Certificate from your Web Interface
Hi All,
After my Verisign cert on my web interface got corrupted and I went to
verisign to get a replacement and found that they wanted $100 to give me a
copy of a cert that I paid $1300 for I said no more! So we installed a
Microsoft Certificate on our web interface server.
But now how to explain to 1300 users how to install it?? Ugh.
Well I happened across Thomas Koetzing's tip on how to automatically install
it via activeX.
See:
http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.thomaskoetzing.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&I
temid=101> &task=view&id=61&Itemid=101
This tip gives you explicit instructions in the download on how to install
the necessary files to make the private certificate load when the user
accesses your
web interface page via activeX.
Of course not wanting to scare my users with ActiveX I went the route of
just placing a link to an asp file I put on the server that loads the cert
with two yes clicks by the user:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297681
The above article is a pretty much a copy and paste deal. Just copy the text
and create a file and put it in your root Web interface directory. The only
thing you need to change
in the file is the location of where your certificate file resides on your
server.
I then just edited the /auth/header.inc file and put a link to the asp file
I created from the above article.
Works like a champ!
Jim Kenzig <mailto:web%20at%20kenzig.com>
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