Resource Specific Client Authentication doesn't work

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IE 6.0 & IE 7.0 Beta 3 does not send client certificate, if the server
requests for one on a particular SSL Connection, to enable accessing of a
specific resource.
At the most, a popup is thrown asking for the user to select the client
certificate to be sent, but nothing is sent on the wire.
 
When the popup opens are any certificates displayed in it? If not, the user
has no client certificates meeting the server's requirements.
 
YES. Certificates are dispalyed when the pop up opens. I have exported a user
certificate. But then even before the selection is made, the browser closes
the connection with the Server. That's really weird.
 
So you access an SSL page requiring a client certificate, the certificate
window opens and displays certificates from which to choose, and the browser
crashes without any displayed error before you can select a certificate to
present?
 
Browser doesn't crash. But the connection in which the Hello Request was sent
from the Server to Client is closed by IE even before the certificate
selection is done.

A new SSL connection is generated by IE when the client certificate is
selected and submitted. But then the certificate is not sent in the new SSL
connection.
 
That sounds like a server-side issue to me. Do you get the same behavior
pointing the browser to an unrelated system requiring client certificates?
(You might have to set up a test server that does nothing but require a
client cert and then display a simple page upon success. If you do this, make
sure the test system is a different physical box.)
 
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