Author: asifch | Posted on: 7/16/2008 7:55:27 AM | Views : 513

Hi, In one of my Asp.Net 2.0 application i have to retrieve the data from other server which is using the SSL Client certificates to authenticate.
to accomplish this i have used the HttpWebRequest and pass the SSL Certificate to it, and it works fine while running the project from the  Visual Studio every thing works fine but when we deploy the site to the IIS, it starts giving the error and returns the "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden."
I have tried to deploy the application to both the IIS 6 and IIS 7 and the beheiviour remains same, however the request logs an event in the System Event Log which is something like  "The remote server has requested SSL client authentication, but no suitable client certificate could be found. An anonymous connection will be attempted. This SSL connection request may succeed or fail, depending on ...

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