IIS Express -- Getting SSL to Work

I am unable to get IIS Express to accept secure connections for a VS2010 MVC3 project that I'm developing. I can get it to accept unsecure connections on port 80, but not secure on port 443.

I've taken the following steps, based on googling:

1) Located the SHA1 thumbprint for my IIS Express Server self-signed certificate via executing the following on a VS2010 commandline:

certmgr.exe /c /s /r localMachine MY

The result was 9B088F80 A4FC3141 28F62890 70BA1FC4 49FDD009. I learned later that I need to delete the spaces when using the thumbprint.

2) Deleted whatever certificate was linked to port 443 by executing the following on an elevated commandline prompt:

netsh http delete sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:443

3) Generated a new GUID by running Create GUID off the VS2010 Tools menu. In my case I got B0421A5B-FF61-47CE-892D-11AA3A9C7D2A.

4) Installed the self-signed certificate to port 443 by executing the following on an elevated commandline prompt:

netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:443 certhash=9B088F80A4FC314128F6289070BA1FC449FDD009 appid={B0421A5B-FF61-47CE-892D-11AA3A9C7D2A}

5) Modified the ACL by running the following from an elevated commandline prompt:

netsh http add urlacl url=https://localhost:443/ user=everyone

6) Modified the application.config file for IIS Express by adding a binding for port 443 and the https protocol. The sites section for the file ended up looking like this:

        <sites>
        <site name="Development Web Site" id="1" serverAutoStart="true">
            <application path="/">
                <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="%IIS_BIN%\AppServer\empty_wwwroot" />
            </application>
            <bindings>
                <binding protocol="https" bindingInformation="*:443:localhost" />
                <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:localhost" />
            </bindings>
        </site>
        <siteDefaults>
            <logFile logFormat="W3C" directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\Logs" />
            <traceFailedRequestsLogging directory="%IIS_USER_HOME%\TraceLogFiles" enabled="true" maxLogFileSizeKB="1024" />
        </siteDefaults>
        <applicationDefaults applicationPool="IISExpressAppPool" />
        <virtualDirectoryDefaults allowSubDirConfig="true" />
    </sites>

7) Restarted the http service by executing the following at an elevated commandline prompt:

net stop http
net start http

8) Changed the Project URL on the Web tab of my MVC project's Property page to the following:

http://localhost/

Saving the project property page triggered a reconfiguration of the server after I made this change.

When I launch the MVC app from within VS2010 it correctly ties back to http://localhost (on port 80, the default; I haven't included all the steps for getting IIS Express to work with unsecure/normal connections on port 80, but they're essentially steps 5 thru 7, but focusing on http and port 80, not https and port 443).

However, trying to transition to any action that requires https gets me a "server refused connection" error.

What am I doing wrong?