Flash SSL connection failure IE

Question

I am working on a very innovative e-commerce site with an all
Flash interface. We have uncovered an unusual situation where Flash
works in Firefox but not IE when calling webservices over https. It
only occurs when the certificate doesn't match the site name. It
appears that after a period of time the IE browser is unable to
open an ssl connection to the target site. This happens even though
the user has accepted the mismatch. Works fine in FireFox.
Anyone else seen this?

Answer 1

RE: the talkingtree.com article, I think you're confusing
client certificates and
server certificates. The talking tree article is discussing
an SSLv3 issue with client certs. Server certs are a seperate
animal altogether.
There should be no issue with updating (renewing?) the SSL
certificate on "webA". Just make sure that the SSL cert being used
by "webA" now, has a "common name" that matches the domain name
you're using to address it with.
(I'm guessing you're simply using "webA" as the domain name,
since it's all internal correct?)
One other thing to consider, what is the "Issuer" is on the
new SSL cert? If the new cert was not issued by a globally trusted
third party (like VeriSign/PayPal, or Thawte), than you may need to
register the cert in JRun's "cacerts" file. You can read more about
that here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19139&sliceId=1#enableCF