- From: Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA) <yngve@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:52:13 +0100
- To: public-xg-webid@w3.org
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:47:41 +0100, peter williams <home_pw@msn.com> wrote: > If I am online, I may see a green address bar behind the address of an EV > site. If I disconnect my home wifi router from its supporting broadband > modem and then refresh the browser page on the home PC, the same site > will > now appear not green (since revocation info is now "not available" for > the > non-root cert). Depends on the cache validity of the responses; and the determination is only done during a full TLS handshake; if you're disconnected there will be no negotiation > Assume the AIA field in the user cert uses OCSP, and no CRL caches exist. > > If there are multiple browser instances open on the PC, some with pages > refreshed some not, presumably some address bars for the one site are > green, > some are not. Or, do browser instances in a PC sync their security state, > and show a consistent set of green/not-green address bars? For Opera, each browser instance (separate process) is on its own (might be tempered by a caching proxy), this probably applies to most browsers, possibly also MSIE -- Sincerely, Yngve N. Pettersen ******************************************************************** Senior Developer Email: yngve@opera.com Opera Software ASA http://www.opera.com/ Phone: +47 23 69 32 60 Fax: +47 23 69 24 01 ********************************************************************
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