Re: Netscape and SSL OpenLDAP

[Randy Kunkee <randy@randallkunkee.com>]

Markus Storm wrote:

> Timo Fischer wrote:
> >
> > > You need to feed your ldap server certificate to communicator, by issuing a
> > > request
> > > of the form
> > >
> > > https://your.ldap.server:636
> >
> > this is not the problem.
> > my certificate is known to Netscape. Also, It works the first time and then
> > every 5 minutes :) over ssl.
> >
> > I rechecked with Outlook Express and it seems to work well with this client.
> > So its propably a Netscape issue.
> >
> > Does anyone know a trick to get it working with Netscape?
> >
>
> Try deleting the server's public key from your Netscape's certificate database.

Try a newer version of Netscape.  I have it working via secure connections on
FreeBSD 4.2, but not if I set it up to log in -- I have to use anonymous
connections.  Sort of defeats the whole process.  (I posted the error message
previously: "referral hop limit exceeded".)