signed applet over browser https

Is there a way to use the browser's https mechanism to access the applets using java plugin 1.4.2 (in mozilla 1.4+)?

I have a site that requires a client certificate for access (possibly stored on a smart card) and the usage of separate keystore, ... makes the applet practically undeployable over https.

Until this can be solved we reverted to http protocol (applet has 2 signed jars and is called from signed javascript) but this is not ideal from the security standpoint.

[494 byte] By [MarkoMaceka] at [2007-9-29 18:19:40]