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Which fields are allowed in a request for a SSL server certificate?

Common Name	= mandatory
Country Name	= mandatory
Organization	= mandatory
Organizational Unit Name	= optional
State or Province Name	= optional
Locality Name	= optional
Email Address	= optional (cannot be used with Windows IIS)

Do not use blank fields in your csr, if you do not wish a field to be in your certificate, do not create this field in your CSR.
eg "Locality= " will result in our system refusing your request.

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