From: Rob McCool 
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: get-client-cert functionality
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:36:19 -0800

Hi, sorry for the late response on this.

> What I'm looking for is the action which occurs when the server is
> stopped and started.  The browser requests the cert password anew on
> the next access; and of course if you have it set up to 'choose every
> time' on multiple certs, it offers that wizard too.
> 
> Is there a way to force this?  I tried a number of things but no joy. 
> I want to use it for timing out a browser's auth for security, of
> course. I'd call get-client-cert from within the local PathCheck fn,
> in fact already have.

There is no public API to do this in the 2.0 servers. If you're using a
UNIX platform, you can call:

  SSL_InvalidateSession(sn->csd);

and this should do what you need. We'll try to get this into the public
API in 3.0.
--
Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/
Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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