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== Problem 1: Acrobat 8 complains that "The Shared Folder Location provided is not valid" ==
 
== Problem 1: Acrobat 8 complains that "The Shared Folder Location provided is not valid" ==
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The first problem I managed to solve.  It complicated by the fact that the http communication is done by Acrobat behind the scenes without any way for the user to see or manage how the connection is being handled.  When the connection uses ssl, how certificates are being validated and how client certificates, if any, are being selected is mysterious.  I decided right away to give up on client certificates, and just try to use http basic authentication over ssl to protect my site.  Even this was not easy.  The reason for this was that my ssl.conf configuration for the secure portion of my web site contained the following couple of lines
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This problem I managed to solve, at least on the Windows version of Acrobat 8.  It was complicated by the fact that the http communication is done by Acrobat behind the scenes without any way for the user to see or manage how the connection is being handled.  When the connection uses ssl, how certificates are being validated and how client certificates, if any, are being selected is mysterious.  I decided right away to give up on client certificates, and just try to use http basic authentication over ssl to protect my site.  Even this was not easy.  The reason for this was that my ssl.conf configuration for the secure portion of my web site contained the following couple of lines
 
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SSLVerifyClient optional
 
SSLVerifyClient optional

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