Re: CERTCA Web Sote Broken!

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/18/02 

From: "David Cross [MS]" <dcross@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 06:25:20 -0700

That site is not supported.

If you apply hotfix Q323172 to both your client and CA web site, your
problem will go away. This is associated with security bulletin MS02-048. 

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David B. Cross [MS]
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"TM" <Thomas_McFarlane@Yahoo.Com> wrote in message
news:#ikfg3lXCHA.1748@tkmsftngp08...
> I am attempting to use the http://sectest.rte.microsoft.com/ to test
Digital
> certificate on my IIS server and encountered an infinite loop of page
> loading and Downloading Activex control. Here is how to repeat the
problem:
>
> Goto this site: http://sectest.rte.microsoft.com/
>
> 1.Click Local Standalone CA
> 2. Click Request a certificate
> 3. Click advanced certificate request
> 4. Click Create and submit a request to this CA.
> 5. Fill in your personal data. At this point, there are 2 things
happening:
> a) A message box saying "Downloading ActiveX control". 2) The drop downbox
> called "CSP on the page shows "Loading...". These two events, I think, are
> in infinite loop.
>
> 6. After you have completed filling in your personal data, press "Save"
> button, you will see an error that says: "This page has not finished
loading
> yet. Please wait a few seconds and try again".
>
> I tried this on two client PC: one is Windows 2000 Pro with Sp3 and one is
> Windows XP Pro with Sp1. I m using MS/IE 6.x Sp1.
>
> I finally tried this on my own Win2000 AS ADS box using MS shipped CERTCA
> site and I got the same result.
>
> Thanks for fowarding this problem to MS.
>
> Thomas.
>
>
>