https client certificate logout/relogin

Question

I have a web site using ssl certificate authentication. How to force the web browser from the server to ask again the certificate to be used? It would be useable for logout, but

Answer 1

From a client side web browser you can do this for MSIE (Internet explorer): your Clear SSL state by going to Tools>Internet Options>Content(tab)>Clear SSL State.

In firefox (prior to version 20) you can do: Tools | Start Private browsing.

Then visit the page in question. Or then do "Tools | stop private browsing" and then...

Then, when you reload a page you're on it will prompt you to present a new client certificate (if you have more than one from the CA that your server trusts). Othererwise if you just have one certificate it will use the one and only one PKI client cert that is in your store.