Re: Web server SSL certificate not quite right

From: Kipp Hawley (kh@traxonline.com)
Date: 09/25/02 

From: "Kipp Hawley" <kh@traxonline.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:15:25 -0700

Okay, a nice discovery:
> (yellow exclamation) The name on the security certificate is invalid or
does
> not match the name of the site

I couldn't find clear documentation on this anywhere (some samples would be
a nice help, MS!), so further experimentation showed that the literal site
name from the URL is what is expected here. So, using "Localhost" for the
certificate's Common Name makes it work when browsing from IIS, and using
the machine's IP address (it doesn't have a DNS entry) makes it work when
accessed that way.

 Kipp Hawley
Trax Softworks, Inc.

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