I have a certificate generated by a non-CA on my development machines and IE 5.5 on Windows warns me but it works fine after that. Mike Hicks wrote: > Here's a question for the web gurus.. > > What do I need to do to convince Internet Explorer to accept an SSL > certificate from a website that has been self-generated and not bought > from Verisign, Thawte, etc.? Mozilla/Netscape will prompt you and ask if > you still want to connect, but IE just decides to stop and prevents the > page from loading (well, I most recently saw it on IE on MacOSX, but I > think it happens on Windows boxes as well). > > Also, for folks at the U -- I've heard that the university has a program > for getting discounted site certificates (not that they're all that > expensive anyway, but I figure I may as well get it cheap if I can).. I'm > afraid I don't even know where to begin looking to purchase a certificate. > Anyone who knows, please e-mail me off-list.. Thanks.. > >