Re^2: LWP and Windows certificates store

but basically the SSL protocol provides you with the certificate...

There are also client certificates, which are sometimes used as a (more secure) alternative to basic/md5/kerberos authentication — and I suppose this is what the OP is referring to.

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Re^3: LWP and Windows certificates store by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 30, 2011 at 14:52 UTC
Now that you mention that, I do have one site that I access and the sysop had to help me because there was a local file that I had to make with a 512 bit public key file. But this was an non-obvious thing to make, rather than a "hey the browser can do it" automatically. Anyway, now that is "set-up", I can open command a window via Putty or FTP stuff to/from this site with Firefox. I haven't had the need to talk to this site via LWP yet. And I wouldn't know how to do it. I await wiser Monks.	[reply]

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Re^3: LWP and Windows certificates store
by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 30, 2011 at 14:52 UTC

Anyway, now that is "set-up", I can open command a window via Putty or FTP stuff to/from this site with Firefox. I haven't had the need to talk to this site via LWP yet. And I wouldn't know how to do it. I await wiser Monks.

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