Wildcard SSL certificates

date posted 9th January 2002 22:33

In a change from your usual programming (or at least a partial respite
from grammar flames), I bring you the wildcard SSL certificate debate...

I want to use a wildcard cert, so set one up and self-signed it.
Netscape appears quite happy to talk to the server now, although it
warns me that it doesn't recognise the signer. Marvellous.

IE on the other hand seems to refuse the certificate because it
doesn't match the name, for some versions of IE which appear to be
totally randomly chosen. IE5.00 works for me, IE5.5 and IE6 don't.

Has anyone else used wildcard certs with success across a range of
versions of IE, or should I give up and hand over more money to
Thawte than I really ought to have to?

James