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Thanks for your input Narayana.
I have managed to make BITS work using a server certificate for validation.
Something that Microsoft need to be aware of is that the job is put into
error with an invalid certificate or certificate authority when either;
- certificate has expired
- root certificate authority is not trusted
- certificate authority itself is not trusted
- HTTPS URL address does not match certificate name
- Trying to access HTTPS site using HTTP URL
The issue is that BITS does not tell you what the actual problem is. You
have to work it out for yourself. In comparison to this, IE presents a
modal popup asking you whether you wish to proceed to access the SSL-enabled
site. The error message handling could be better to tell you what is
actually wrong. I only found out whilst using IE to access the secured
site, although this will not always be possible, particularly when running
as a windows service on a remote server. May be one for a future BITS
release.
Peter
"Narayana Mahankali [MSFT]" <narayanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> BITS does not support setting client certificates but it can transfer
> content from a HTTPS server. It validates the server certificates and so
> you should see that the job is put into an error state if the server
> certificate is expired etc. If you are running into any specific issue
> with HTTPS we would like to hear about it and find more details.
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> "Statto" <wardpd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> MSDN says that BITS supports transfers over HTTPS. I know that BITS
>> cannot use client certificates but has anyone had any experience of using
>> BITS over HTTPS, ignoring certificates setting on IIS, and the issues
>> encountered if any.
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>> Peter
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