Question : .pfx and .cer file, to access Web services

Hello Experts,

I have been provided with .cer (SSL Certificate )and .pfx( Digital Signing Certificate) file by the vendor to connect to an external Webservice through my client.
I want to know more information on how these files work?? I just ran them on my machine by double clicking them but Do I need to code in my client (VC++ application) for them to work?
Please let me know.

Thanks
Roop

Answer : .pfx and .cer file, to access Web services

If you are using a PEM encoded secret key file and cert file currently via the openssl libraries, you should probably open the pfx in the openssl command line tool (or xca - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xca ) and re-export in that format.