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The services interfaces that come with Netscape Certificate Management System
(CMS) make it possible for end-entities to interact with the server. Your
end-entities can use the interface's HTML-based forms to carry out various
certificate and key-related operations, such as enrolling for, renewing, and
revoking certificates.
You can use the default forms as they are, customize them, or develop your own
forms to suit your organization's policies or terminology. This chapter explains the
default forms and templates used by the end-entity interface.
The chapter has the following sections:
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End-Entity Services Interface
Certificate Management System provides HTML forms for the various
entities—people, routers, servers, and others—that use certificates to identify
themselves and that need to be able to request certificate issuance and
management operations. These forms, collectively called the End-Entity Services
interface, use different protocols and life-cycle management procedures for
different kinds of end entities. For example, the Certificate Manager provides
separate certificate enrollment forms for clients such as Netscape Navigator 3.x,
versions of Netscape Communicator later than 4.5, and Microsoft Internet
Explorer. The reason for this is that end entities running Navigator 3.x and
Introduction to End-Entity Services
End-Entity Services Interface (page 27)
Accessing the End-Entity Services Interface (page 31)
End-Entity Forms and Templates (page 31)
Chapter 2
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