The connection times out when you visit a webpage that redirects a POST request to an SSL-secured site in Internet Explorer 8

Consider the following scenario: �

• You have a webpage that redirects a POST request to a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-secured site.
• The SSL-secured site requires client certificates.
• You use Windows Internet Explorer 8 to open this webpage, and then select a client certificate.

In this scenario, Internet Explorer 8 does not send the client certificate data in the POST request. Therefore, the server does not receive the data and the connection times out.�

Security update information

To resolve this problem, install the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website: For more technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft website: Note�This update was first included in security update 2497640 (MS11-018). For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: �