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03 July 2009
Required permissions when calling a Web service using client certificate for authentication in an ASP.NET Web application
A Web service requiring Client certificate authentication is a common scenario. You may have a client application which needs to send the Client certificate as part of the web request for accessing the web service. This client application may be a Windows/Console Read More...
13 June 2009
Avoid this confusion around Client certificate mapping in IIS 6.0/7.0
I just wanted to add this quick post around Client certificate Mapping on IIS. This is focused on 1-to-1/Many-to-1 mapping in IIS 6.0/7.0. If you are interested to know more about configuring Client certificate mapping in IIS 6.0 please check this post Read More...
11 April 2009
Automate client certificate one-to-one mapping in IIS 6.0 using C#
In PSS, we occasionally get requests from our customers wherein they want to automatically add entries for client certificate mapping in IIS or Active Directory (AD). That is either a 1-to-1, Many-to-1 or AD mapping for the client certificate authentication Read More...
03 April 2008
Unable to access IIsCertMapper object through ADSI
Today, I was working on an issue where we were trying to add mapping for client certificate for a windows account using ADSI and VBScript. Something similar as below: <% Dim CertObj, vCert vCert = Request.ClientCertificate("CERTIFICATE") Set CertObj Read More...
07 December 2007
Certificate Trust List not being honored by IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0?
Something one should be aware of if one is dealing with Client certificate and assuming Certificate Trust List (CTL) will limit the list of Trusted Certificate Authorities (CA's) being sent to the client during the initial SSL handshake. In IIS 5.0 Post Read More...
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09 June 2007
Client Certificate revisited....How to troubleshoot client certificate related issues
Well, I am back to Client certificate again, guess the reason being a lot of support calls that we getting off late are related to any of the following four errors, especially the first two. 403.7 403.13 403.16 403.17 ( I will cover .16 and .17 very briefly Read More...
14 April 2007
How to setup IIS and AD for Client certificate authentication
Hi All, This post talks about how Client certificates are configured on websites. I have seen a lot of incidents where people get into issues with client certificate in particular, although server (website) certificates can give a scare at times. Here Read More...
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