Have or create a certificate that both Firefox and IE can use
I am able to create certificates using Ms's Digital Certificate for VBA Projects. What I cannot seem to get right is creating it in a manner that will work in both Firefox and IE.
Shouldn't it work in both browsers? What am I doing wrong here?
Regards, Chuck Billow
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Hi Chuck, what are you signing with the certificate? Firefox doesn't run COM objects (ActiveX controls), so it's not clear how your code is interacting with Firefox.
It started out as something seemingly innocent, Jefferson. I went to a site in FF that needed a personal certificate. I created one and I was good to go. Then I noticed, I thought, that the cert wasn't showing up as available in IE, so I had to re-do the process. It was different, but I figured that I could share info in the future between browsers. Hence the question.
I'm not entirely clear here...I had thought that the cert worked like a key -- Verisign uses one for some law school reference sites -- and I remembered having a bit of an issue there: that the browser I signed up / in with would be the one I would need in order to access the site later.
So then, if I need to create a certificate for a site, does it mean that if I create the cert in, say, IE, that it will only work in IE, and then if I want one for Firefox I will need to create a second cert? There's no way to share these?=, Or, assuming, if I am understanding you, that the method between the two browsers is totally different, that I could export form one and import into another? Or am I locked into the browser that I create with if, say, I am only allowed to create one cert?
Chuck