Re: [Fed-Talk] Forcing Safari to use Email Cert
Re: [Fed-Talk] Forcing Safari to use Email Cert
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Forcing Safari to use Email Cert
- From: Timothy J Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:07:13 -0500
On May 12, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Billy Lenox wrote:
Following this by Timothy Miller : "Set an identity preference on
your email signing cert. Right click on it in Keychain, select "New
Identity Preference" and fill in the dialog for your OWA site" Does
nothing but causes Keychains and or Safari to Crash.
This is new in 10.5.2; worked in 10.5.1 when I last needed to hit DoD
OWA from my Mac. I'll log a bug today.
Apple just needs to make it better for the Users and Add the Ask to
Choose Certificate.
The problem with this is you'll get asked *all the time*. HTTP is
stateless, and the browser will drop the connection between page
fetches. Each time the browser needs to open up a connection, you'll
get prompted to select the cert again.
Try it in Firefox and you'll see what I mean. It even happens in IE.
There's no good solution. Auto-selection interferes least with the
user but sometimes gets it wrong, and with no control over the server
there may not be a good failure mode (as in this case). Manual
selection gets freakin' annoying *very* quickly. Setting a preference
has to be done on a site-by-site basis, which is a annoying to maintain.
These are computers, not magical "divine my intent" boxes. :)
-- Tim
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