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No instructions for a custom CA on Windows

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The README does not have instructions for a using a private CA on Windows.

For the common case, the following invocation will suffice:

"%PROGRAMFILES%\java\jre7\bin\keytool" -import -alias A-UNIQUE-ALIAS -file YOUR-CA.cer -keystore "%PROGRAMFILES%\Java\jre7\lib\security\cacerts"

This, of course, will not work in non-standard configurations (32-bit Java on 64-bit Windows, a custom Eclipse distribution with bundled JRE, Java != 7, etc.) but that isn't a reason to not try to help the majority of cases. :) Also, I chose the .cer extension as that is the default provided by the Microsoft Certification Authority web server (the actual filename is "certnew.cer" but ew on the basename...).

For any of the non-standard configurations where this invocation will not work, hopefully the deployer has enough clue to fix it up. After all, GitLab + in-house CA + Windows + Eclipse users is something of an advanced topic.

Thanks for your help.