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Stephen_Archer_
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Oct 28, 2011

SHA2 / SHA256 certificates

I have a customer that wants to use SHA2 / SHA256 certificates on their website (fronted by LTM), however clients such as Windows XP SP2 are unable to verify such certificates. The customer would lik...
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Nov 16, 2011

Sorry to barge in, but the user-agent string does seem to give away something about the OS as well, this is my WinXP SP3 PC:

 

 

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

 

Is does look a bit weird (SV1), but maybe you can find a common string in the user-agent header of WinXP SP2 stations?