Title: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: Certificate Store Access via HTTP
Author: P. Gutmann, Ed.
Status: Standards Track
Date: February 2006
Pages: 25
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4387.txt
The protocol conventions described in this document satisfy some of the operational requirements of the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This document specifies the conventions for using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/HTTPS) as an interface mechanism to obtain certificates and certificate revocation lists (CRLs) from PKI repositories. Additional mechanisms addressing PKIX operational requirements are specified in separate documents.