[cobalt-users] RE: self signed cert doesn't work with macintosh browsers?

[Matt Davis <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In most 
> cases the browser will simply prompt you to accept the certificate. However
> I have noticed that my customers who use Macs (being designers and all)
> frequently complain that they can't get access at all.

Yes. Know this well. Don't know solution, but know workaround.

Mac users will need Netscape 4.7 for SSL work beyond fully MS acknowledged
certificates - the security, Java engine and SSL handling in MSIE-Mac is
IMHO very iffy. Not that Netscape is panacea either - the trouble is that
Netscape renders text far smaller than MSIE (72dpi into 96dpi), making some
MSIE styled sites using size="1" text hard to read, therefore leading to
assorted moans from the Mac camp. Tough. :-)

Mac users have to have both: where one fails, the other will work.

HTH.

Matt (another of those beret-touting mac-abusers)

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