SSL Certificates on OSX (Dar :)

[David Bovill]

On 9 Jan 2006, at 12:35, Dave Cragg wrote:

> David, what is it you want to do with this certificate? Use it to  
> provide your own secure web server, or to verify connections to  
> https sites secured with certificates issued by CAcert? I'm  
> assuming the latter. If that's right, then I *think* you will need  
> a different certificate. I'm guessing the certificate you mention  
> above is your personal certificate for securing websites, mail, etc.

Yes - the latter (actually to secure web services).


> I had some mixed success with this root.crt file. I could connect  
> more often than not to the test url, but I also got a lot of socket  
> timeouts. (on OS X 10.4.3)
>
> Good luck!

Thanks, for the explanation Dave - hopefully the timeouts will prove  
to be CAcert server related....