[thelist] IE/SSL Weirdness

Mark Gregor mark at velir.com
Tue Jul 3 11:13:06 CDT 2001


Hmm.  Good thought, but the two people having the problem are both on
the same network.  Could, I guess, be limited to their machine's
connection to the network, but it seems kind of unlikely, particularly
since they can access a bunch of other SSL enabled sites.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Herrick, Emma
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:49 AM
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> Subject: RE: [thelist] IE/SSL Weirdness
> 
> 
> I may be way off base, but here goes: I would first check the 
> network connection of those folks getting the error message. 
> My understanding is that if anything gets in the way of the 
> secure handshake they won't be connected so conceivably if 
> the connection is shaky it won't be accepted. Just a thought...
> 
> Emma
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Gregor [mailto:mark at velir.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:39 AM
> >To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> >Subject: [thelist] IE/SSL Weirdness
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >We built an SSL encrypted site that works fine for every 
> Netscape user 
> >and virtually every IE user.  However, a certain limited 
> number of IE 
> >users cannot access the SSL encrypted pages and get the 
> generic "Server 
> >Not Found" error when trying to hit an any encrypted page.
> >
> >One additional oddity: no errors and no accesses are logged on the 
> >server when a user encounters this error, leading us to believe the 
> >problem is on the client and not on the server.  Even weirder, the
> >*exact* same version and build of IE5.5 for one person gets 
> an error, 
> >while another gets through fine.
> >
> >The articles in the MS knowledge base about an IE bug with some SSL 
> >encrypted sites don't seem specific to this problem.
> >
> >Any ideas on what might cause this?
> >
> >Help appreciated!
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >
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