Anyway, all the revocation server does is look up the cert in a list and say "yep! it's revoked!". Your browser is free to ignore this and some of them will let you do so. Revocation is really a non issue, CA's don't have any real power to take back a cert they issued beyond issuing a new statement saying, "whoops our bad". And normally this is not controversial (i.e. the SSL keys were stolen).