I was running into the same issue. I ended up performing a HTTP request, then getting the ssl info and creating a certificate and installing into the Firefox certificate database. This was done with Xulrunner and Javascript so it was fairly easy to do. The online documentation helped out a lot and there were tons of samples. I imagine you are not specifically using Firefox so I'm not sure how to do this for IE but maybe this will give you some ideas. Perhaps one could also write an AutoIT script to do this, just some ideas (SSL certificate information - AutoIt General Help and Support - AutoIt Forums ). Hope this helps.
