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Require client certificate

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iLinkTech

IS-IT--Management
Nov 28, 2003
133
DE
Hi,

Have an app that downloads a small component each time the user attempts a connection. I would like to increase the security on this app by requiring a client certificate - computers so configured can proceed to user authentication (username / password) and then do the download, others are denied before user auth.

Now for what might be the hard part - I need it to be transparent to the end-user (unless the cert check fails of course). I want to avoid the condition where the user has to select an appropriate cert (as they have to do w/ IE when client certs are required); ideally it would be able to identify the valid cert or lack of one and proceed from there.

Any thoughts on how to do this?


Thanks....
 
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