Using Digital Certs

[teamBadMonkey]

I've looked around, but haven't found much info on using digital certificates in ASP. My situation - I need to develop an interface to a remote server. They've issued a digital cert (a .p12 file) and I've installed it.

I can put a URL into a browser on the production server -

https://www.domain.com?ping

- and all behaves as expected. There's a popup for the digital cert, but after hitting ok, I get the data I'm looking for.

However - I need to automate this process.

set httpObj = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
httpObj.open "GET", url, false
httpObj.send

This hangs until a timeout. I've seen stuff about using setOption(option, value) to set the path to the certificate, properly installing the cert on IIS...but I'm getting a bit lost at this point.

The machine runs Win2003 server. If anyone has experience in this area, I'd really appreciate some help.

Steve

 

[teamBadMonkey]

I think I've got some more info to share.
what works:
logging onto production server as admin, using a browser to hit the target URL
what doesn't work:
using the ASP file from my home computer

My hunch is that since I can log onto the server as admin and hit the site via the web browser, but I can't get it to work when I use my ASP script via a remote computer (not admin?), then it very well could be a permissions thing.

Like I said, I'm charting new territory for myself, so I'm really only speculating right now. But since I installed the digital cert as an admin, does that restrict the permissions in a way that it won't work for an IIS general user?