Microsoft is now providing "Windows 2000 Service Pack 1" which
resolves this wildcard problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/8/73.ASP
Warning: it's an 87 MB download.
Tony
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Mads Toftum wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:15:52AM +1100, MichaelWaples wrote:
> > I'm getting the error when using a wildcard certificate -
> > "RSA server certificate wildcard CommonName (CN) '*.4pphp.com' does NOT
> > mtch server name"
> > but if I do a test standard certificate it works fine
>
> It is a warning - telling you that '*.4pphp.com' is not the same as f.ex.
> 'www.4pphp.com'. Wildcard certs used to work nicely with most browsers,
> but at some time (IE on win2k) Microsoft decided to remove that feature -
> so users with those browsers will get a warning that server name does not
> match certificate. For a more detailed discussion of this, see the
> openssl-users mailing list archive.
>
> vh
>
> Mads Toftum
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