Subject: IE stops sending client certificate

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:31:27 +0100 (CET)

Hi,

We've been having problems with apache/modssl and client certificates in IE (5.5sp2, 6, 6sp1 all versions of Windows).

When the client sets up a session ofr the first time he gets prompted for his client cert and after entering the cert password he is able to access the secure site (like he should). But after 15 mins or so he tries to access the page again and than he cannot access the page. In our logs we see that we're not recieving teh client cert. Apparently the bowser stops sending the client cert.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

We've set ClientCacheTime and ServerCacheTime for the browser at  24hrs and SSLClientTimeout/SSLServerTimeout  also to 24hrs