On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:56:16AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> I'm trying to roll my own wildcard certificate (i.e. where the CN =
> *.domain.com)

> I'm assuming there's more to it than just putting an asterisk in the CN field?

While CN="*.domain.com" is the typical thing to do, I've found that netscape and
mozilla (though I've not tried it with the latest versions) had no problem accepting
a cert where CN='domain.com' for any machine foo.domain.com.

I never had an opportunity to try it myself w/ ie or opera, but I never got any
complaints from users of them either.

Whether the behavior I saw is best considered a bug or a feature, I'll leave to debate.

-JimC
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