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checked "check for server certificate revocation" problem
results in OL-279 error on Quicken download, all accounts. Unchecking gets flawless download. happened suddenly april 25. Quicken no help. Had IE vs.7 then. Now I have Vs 8. No change, can download only after uncheckin , closing and reopening IE. On closing computer IE resets to checked. In addition, now i get Windows message" about "revocation inf not available for this site. Do you want to proceed?" on opening e-mails from credit card companies. Contacted Symantec, Quicken, my ISP, Citicards tech support. The latter said it was a system problem on my PC. HELP
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Glad its all working for you... however that "check for server certificate revocation" is unchecked is a workaround, not a fix. You cannot validate that a cert hasn't been revoked - that's not a good thing! Why use certs at all?
The revocation information (CRL) is normally carried over normal http port 80 so firewall really shouldn't be an issue unless you block a lot of sites or specific words that might happen to get in the way.
You can manually pull up the CRL in a browser by opening up the cert and looking at the details tab and looking for the entry for CRL Distribution Points - highlight that and take any of the URLs that show up in the bottom half of the window that start with http. If one of them has ocsp in the URL then you can only use that on vista/2008, but there should be another one that isn't for legacy users on xp, etc.