credential files

Nigel Wade nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
Thu Jul 31 08:44:19 UTC 2008


m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea how a browser recognizes that a cite is asking for a
> credential file, and hands it back to it?
> 
> For example, I go to a site, and firefox suddenly says "this sites wants a credential -
> is this the credential that you want to give it?" I've used a plugin that shows me http
> headers and responses, and see nothing where that happens.
> 
> Links? Pointers? Clues for the poor?

What sort of credentials are you talking about? Is this SSL (https) with client 
certificate verification? If so it's part of the initial SSL handshake. The server asks 
the client to prove that it is who it says it is by supplying a valid, authenticated, 
certificate.

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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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