Resource Specific Client Authentication doesn't work

[Guest]

IE 6.0 & IE 7.0 Beta 3 does not send client certificate, if the server
requests for one on a particular SSL Connection, to enable accessing of a
specific resource.
At the most, a popup is thrown asking for the user to select the client
certificate to be sent, but nothing is sent on the wire.

 

[Guest]

When the popup opens are any certificates displayed in it? If not, the user
has no client certificates meeting the server's requirements.

 

[Guest]

YES. Certificates are dispalyed when the pop up opens. I have exported a user
certificate. But then even before the selection is made, the browser closes
the connection with the Server. That's really weird.

 

[Guest]

So you access an SSL page requiring a client certificate, the certificate
window opens and displays certificates from which to choose, and the browser
crashes without any displayed error before you can select a certificate to
present?

 

[Guest]

Browser doesn't crash. But the connection in which the Hello Request was sent
from the Server to Client is closed by IE even before the certificate
selection is done.

A new SSL connection is generated by IE when the client certificate is
selected and submitted. But then the certificate is not sent in the new SSL
connection.

 

[Guest]

That sounds like a server-side issue to me. Do you get the same behavior
pointing the browser to an unrelated system requiring client certificates?
(You might have to set up a test server that does nothing but require a
client cert and then display a simple page upon success. If you do this, make
sure the test system is a different physical box.)