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authorEric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:09:33 +0000 (13:09 +0000)
committerEric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:09:33 +0000 (13:09 +0000)
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1761216 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.html.en

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@@ -2665,13 +2665,9 @@ The following levels are available for <em>level</em>:</p>
      the client <em>has to</em> present a valid Certificate</li>
 <li><strong>optional_no_ca</strong>:
      the client may present a valid Certificate<br />
-     but it need not to be (successfully) verifiable.</li>
+     but it need not to be (successfully) verifiable. This option
+     cannot be relied upon for client authentication.  </li>
 </ul>
-<p>In practice only levels <strong>none</strong> and
-<strong>require</strong> are really interesting, because level
-<strong>optional</strong> doesn't work with all browsers and level
-<strong>optional_no_ca</strong> is actually against the idea of
-authentication (but can be used to establish SSL test pages, etc.)</p>
 <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">SSLVerifyClient require</pre>
 </div>