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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> on 2007/03/16 22:50:17 UTC

Re: ReCap: 2.2.4 windows binary w/ssl - server certificates

Marc Stern wrote:
> For info, I developed for the Belgian government, a reverse proxy
> installation script (Unix/Windows) that encompasses a certificate
> creation, and its registration in the config file. This uses gawk.
> It is available on
> http://www.belgium.be/zip/eid_authentication_proxy_fr.html

It's simple enough to create one; however none of the other packaging
does so, and the question remains, should httpd's windows installer
do anything differently?

> Another (simpler) possibility would be to hard-code a test certificate
> in the distribution.

That would be a mistake, there are several security issues with doing so.