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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using ASDM
Chapter72 Configuring Clientless SSL VPN
Encoding
Java objects which have been transformed by clientless SSL VPN can subsequently be signed using a
PKCS12 digital certificate associated with a trustpoint. In the Java Trustpoint pane, you can configure
the clientless SSL VPN Java object signing facility to use a PKCS12 certificate and keying material from
a specified trustpoint location.
To import a trustpoint, choose Configuration > Properties > Certificate > Trustpoint > Import.
Encoding
This pane lets you view or specify the character encoding for clientless SSL VPN portal pages.
Character encoding, also called “character coding” and “a character set,” is the pairing of raw data (such
as 0s and 1s) with characters to represent the data. The language determines the character encoding
method to use. Some languages use a single method, while others do not. Usually, the geographic region
determines the default encoding method used by the browser, but the remote user can change it. The
browser can also detect the encoding specified on the page, and render the document accordingly.
The encoding attribute lets you specify the value of the character-encoding method used on the portal
page to ensure that the browser renders it properly, regardless of the region in which the user is using the
browser, and regardless of any changes made to the browser.
By default, the ASA applies the “Global Encoding Type” to pages from Common Internet File System
servers. The mapping of CIFS servers to their appropriate character encoding, globally with the “Global
Encoding Type” attribute, and individually with the file-encoding exceptions displayed in the table,
provides for the accurate handling and display of CIFS pages when the proper rendering of filenames or
directory paths, as well as pages, is an issue.
Detailed Steps
Step1 Global Encoding Type determines the character encoding that all clientless SSL VPN portal pages
inherit except for those from the CIFS servers listed in the table. You can type the string or choose one
of the options from the drop-down list, which contains the most common values, as follows:
•big5
•gb2312
•ibm-850
•iso-8859-1
•shift_jis
Note If you are using Japanese Shift_jis Character encoding, click Do not specify in the Font Family
area of the associated Select Page Font pane to remove the font family.
•unicode
•windows-1252
•none
Note If you click none or specify a value that the browser on the clientless SSL VPN session does not
support, it uses its own default encoding.