How about creating a PKCS#12 file out of our self-generated SSL certificate and have Internet Explorer import the PKCS#12 file. After that, Internet Explorer will have the certification information in the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" section for all MS products to use. I ran into a similar situation, but only with IMAPS/POPS. This should work with websites also. -Cha Mike Hicks wrote: >Here's a question for the web gurus.. > >What do I need to do to convince Internet Explorer to accept an SSL >certificate from a website that has been self-generated and not bought >from Verisign, Thawte, etc.? Mozilla/Netscape will prompt you and ask if >you still want to connect, but IE just decides to stop and prevents the >page from loading (well, I most recently saw it on IE on MacOSX, but I >think it happens on Windows boxes as well). > >Also, for folks at the U -- I've heard that the university has a program >for getting discounted site certificates (not that they're all that >expensive anyway, but I figure I may as well get it cheap if I can).. I'm >afraid I don't even know where to begin looking to purchase a certificate. >Anyone who knows, please e-mail me off-list.. Thanks.. >