Maybe this is a Netscape security problem, not Apache ....

I had tried Apache+ssl with various levels of SSLVerifyClient, with
Netscape 4.5. On one platform, I had no certificates. On another, I had
one from the local phone company.

level                   0 certs         1 cert
none                     OK              OK
optional                 OK              NO
require                  didn't try generating one
optional_no_ca           OK              OK, accepts my existing cert

If I have no cert, I click through the Netscape alerts and eventually see
my page. If I have one, there is no option not to present it. So the
server set to optional_no_ca accepts the certificate I do have, and logs
some information from it. This may be a privacy concern. With "optional",
I present my cert and it's wrong, so I'm refused.

regards

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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew 

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