Has anyone use Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to download content from websites?

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Youll were helping me with another thread earlier today.. And youll were saying .net supports SSL via WebClient.. but...

Does anyone know if vb.net supports PKI ? or has any functions.. or will I have to be writing tons and tons of code?

My implementations is.. I will give 10clients my program.. and this program will come included with a .p12 (x.509) file.. which this is the key.
So when the users run this program, they connect to https://www.myserver.com/ and authenticate themself via PKI.. and after that download /file.exe

(Basically I need:
Client-side Authentication
Client-side authentication is when a server requests the clients certificate for authentication purposes before being allowed to communicate with the server. This assures that the client is not an imposter.
and all this over SSL
)

Anyone have pointers for this?

Any help would be great!

thanks
Lee

 

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use WSE ... change the proxy base calss from
"System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol" to
"Microsoft.Web.Services.WebServicesClientProtocol" then you can add an X509
token to the security elements in your SOAP context ...

(reply to myself)

but has anyone done this..

I see possible issues per:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/building/wse/wse2sp3readme.aspx

but have they been resolved? (like the timing issue)

 

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hmmm.. looks that is just if I have control of the server (which I do.. but the https server is apache)