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# Provide a Client-Side SSL Certificate

Most web sites do not require clients to provide an SSL certificate. To crawl a site that requires a client-side certificate, set the configuration parameters `SSLClientCertificatePath` and `SSLClientCertificatePassword`.

NOTE: The file specified by `SSLClientCertificatePath` must be in PKCS12 format and contain both the client-side certificate and private key. `SSLClientCertificatePassword` specifies the password for the private key.

You can set these parameters in the task section, for example:

    [MyTask]
    Url=...
    SSLClientCertificatePath=my_cert.p12
    SSLClientCertificatePassword=encrypted-password

Alternatively, you can set the parameters in a separate section and then refer to that section by setting `ClientCertificateSections`. This allows you to specify different certificates for different sites. For example:

    [MyTask]
    Url=...
    StayOnSite=False
    ClientCertificateSections=ClientCert1,ClientCert2

    [ClientCert1]
    SSLClientCertificateAuthorityRegex=.*site1\.example\.com.*
    SSLClientCertificatePath=my_cert.p12
    SSLClientCertificatePassword=encrypted-password

    [ClientCert2]
    SSLClientCertificateAuthorityRegex=.*site2\.example\.com.*
    SSLClientCertificatePath=a_different_cert.p12
    SSLClientCertificatePassword=encrypted-password

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Web Connector 25.2

Topic Title: Provide a Client-Side SSL Certificate