[Simpleweb-Support] SSL client certificate request: Safari 5 problem?

[Andrew B. <and...@sd...>]

Niall and Fabio kindly sent me links to example code for delivering web content over SSL, see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTilp2LqrCGMJ5Io6hxFOJMLZqIYGNutDmYslm-gP%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=simpleweb-support.

As  I need to use an existing signed certificate inside a Java keystore I've adopted/adapted Fabio's example which reads from the keystore file.

I have set the SSLContext to "TLS".

I've tested against a keystore containing a bona-fide signed certificate issued by Thawte and all is well across a range of browsers: Internet Explorer on Windows and Firefox, Opera, Chrome on Windows and Mac.

However on Safari 5 (but NOT 4) on the Mac I encounter a message asking for a client certificate, see screenshot:



Upon selecting a certificate (doesn't matter which), Safari then gives a message:

"Safari can’t open the page “xxxx” because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server “xxxx”.

On Windows behaviour is slightly different, Safari 5 simply displays the message without prompting for client certificate.

As this works fine with other browsers, including earlier version of Safari could this be an Safari 5 issue that needs to be addressed by Apple?

Andy Barlow - Chief Technology Officer - MBCS CENG EURING CITP 

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