[ic] Internet Explorer 6.0.2600.0000IC and W2K can't display a secure page - OT

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Aug 3 10:43:01 2002


At 06:03 PM 8/2/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>At 08:13 PM 8/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>> > Joachim Leidinger wrote:
>> > >
>> > > a client reported to me, he is unable to get the checkout
>> > > page, which is
>> > > secure. He has
>> > >
>> > > Internet Explorer 6.0.2600.0000IC
>> > > Windows 2000 SP1
>> > >
>> > > He get a "The page cannot be displayed" page.
>>
>>We had a similar issue with a few different versions of IE, but I don't
>>think we've seen this behavior with IE 6 or later.  We found the problem to
>>be with apache and ssl (sorry I can't offer a better explanation than that,
>
>My personal conspiracy theory is that Microsoft purposefully makes IE as 
>in-compatible as possible with all other SSL implementations except its 
>own (IIS).
>
>+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>| Dan Browning, Kavod Technologies <db@kavod.com>
>+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That is really not as a farfetched as it sounds - look at what they have 
done with other protocols, programming languages, etc. MS's interpretation 
of 'standards' has always been somewhat self-serving.

- Ed L.


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