SSL Certificates

An SSL Certificate is a document that describes who you are. Though SSL servers absolutely must provide certificates, clients--such as QS--usually don't. On rare occasions, a server will be configured to check to see if a client has a certificate. On even rarer occasions the server may require the certificate meet certain requirements.

QS comes with a demo certificate for test purposes. It's called qs.pem. If a service complains that you haven't presented a valid certificate, tick the Use SSL Certificate box, in General Options, and QS will use the test pem that's included. That'll probably solve your problems. If the service continues to complain that the certificate isn't satisfactory, you'll need to purchase a certificate from a service such as VeriSign--which is very expensive--or generate your own self-signed certificate for free. Here's is an online tutorial that can help you out with that: online: How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate If you have to get a new certificate, call it qs.pem and put it in the QS home directory.

All that having been said, you won't need a certificate.