Look what came through the openssl list. Could this be related to the MSIE5
problem discussed here early?

Jorge wrote:
> 
> >Betreff: Unable to load root CA into MSIE :(
> >
> >I created a self-signed CA certificate.
> >Now I want to load it into the browser
> >
> >If browser is Netscape, the script sends Content-Type:
> >application/x-x509-ca-cert and a pem encoded version of the ca-cert, in
> >case of ie this file is sent as der encoded.
> >
> >The netscape case works without any problem, but IE always try to save
> >certificate file with open/save dialog opening.
> >
> >Apache has the following line in its config:
> >AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert cacert
> >
> >But it seems do nothing - I'm still not able to load root certificate
> >into MSIE :(
> >
> >
> >Anyone could give me an MSIE version example of loading root cert into
> >the browser??
> >
> The problem seems to be that Microsoft has changed the content type of root
> CAs. In IE4 you could install a root CA Cert by sending it to the browser as
> content type application/x-x509-ca-cert, but in IE5 you must send it as
> content type application/pkix-cert.
> 
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