395365 - SSL with client authentication doesn't work properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396441

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[Milan Tomic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

I have been working for few years developing software involving X509 certs. Please, read carefully message below. Try to understand it and more importantly: try to fix it. Please, don't simply mark this (proved) bug as duplicate, I know that this bug is present for years and probably more people reported it. The problem is that it was never fixed. :(

FF has 2 options for client SSL certs: "Select one automatically" and "Ask me (every time)". "Ask me..." option asks for certificate to be chosen about every 5 to 10 secs. This is irritating and unnecessary (unnecessary = doesn't add value, useless). I cannot use "Select one automatically" option, because I have more then 1 cert installed in my FF. "Ask me..." option should ask for certificate to be chosen only during initial SSL handshake, not every few seconds, which is very irritating.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In FF menu Tools -> Options -> Advanced, choose "Ask me every time" option
2. Try to connect to a web page which requires client SSL authentication (certificate)

Actual Results:  
FF asks for a certificate to be chosen every few seconds.

Expected Results:  
FF should ask for certificate only once at the beginning (during SSL handshake)