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Chapter 4
Internationalization of End-Entity
Interface
The services interfaces that come with Netscape Certificate Management System
(CMS) make it possible for end-entities and agents to interact with the server. Your
end-entities and agents 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
how to customize the forms and templates used by the interfaces.
The chapter has the following sections:
•
Displaying Forms in Non-English Languages (page 95)
Displaying Forms in Non-English Languages
The forms and response templates that come with Certificate Management System
are all in English. Certificate Management System supports forms and templates in
other languages, and multiple languages can be supported on the same CMS
instance. Every aspect of the Certificate Management System is designed to
accommodate multiple languages, including all storage and certificate processing
(it is possible to have certificate subject names with data in Chinese, for example).
The CMS administration console windows support data in non-English languages,
but the messages and menu items cannot be localized.
When an HTTP or HTTPS request arrives at Certificate Management System, the
server checks the HTTP
header to see what languages are
Accept-language
preferred by the requestor. For example, a client that prefers content in Korean
would have the value "ko" in the
header. The server looks in the
Accept-language
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