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Title: SSL CSR for a customer
Post by: CaseyR on April 18, 2013, 05:02:15 PM

Hi,

I have a customer who does not have a paid SSL certificate and would like to get one.   They don't have the tools to generate a CSR themselves and I am leery of developing certificate info of customers, so I was thinking of shipping them the CreateCertificateSigningRequest.bat along with the openssl.exe and ssl related dlls

I have fiddled with a test folder and subfolder but haven't found the right combination to make it work.

What has to be included and where does it have to be placed to generate a usable CSR for a customer?  Any other suggestion for generating a CSR by a customer?

Many thanks.

Title: Re: SSL CSR for a customer
Post by: JPMacDonald on April 18, 2013, 05:49:38 PM

Hi,

Bruce's documentation for this is pretty detailed and worked fine in my tests using a self-signed certificate, it should help you great deal.

http://www.capesoft.com/docs/NetTalk7/NetTalkWebSecure.htm

Regards

Parker

Title: Re: SSL CSR for a customer
Post by: CaseyR on April 19, 2013, 08:48:18 AM

Indeed it does, if I was creating the CSR for myself using Clarion 8\accessory\bin.   Alas, my customers don't have Clarion 8 and NetTalk themselves so I am looking for which files I should send them and where they should be placed in hierarchy for them to create their own CSR.

Thanks anyway.

Title: Re: SSL CSR for a customer
Post by: Bruce on April 19, 2013, 10:35:02 PM

Hi Casey,
I guess read the BAT file and see what it uses. Also I guess the "path" to OpenSSL exe might be important. (Its been a long time since I last read the BAT file, so I don't have the details to memory.)

Frankly, you'd be better off generating the CSR for them. It doesn't sound like they're gonna be able to do it properly themselves. Or use a provider that has an online generator.

cheers
Bruce