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The connection times out when you visit a webpage that redirects a POST request to an SSL-secured site in Internet Explorer 8

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SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario:

You have a webpage that redirects a POST request to a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-secured site.
The SSL-secured site requires client certificates.
You use Windows Internet Explorer 8 to open this webpage, and then select a client certificate.

In this scenario, Internet Explorer 8 does not send the client certificate data in the POST request. Therefore, the server does not receive the data and the connection times out.

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RESOLUTION

Security update information

To resolve this problem, install the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website:

http://update.microsoft.com

(http://update.microsoft.com)

For more technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft website:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx

(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx)

Note This update was first included in security update 2497640 (MS11-018). For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2497640

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2497640/ )

MS11-018: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer

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