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

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Aug 5 13:50:01 2002


At 12:35 PM 8/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Me again....
>>>
>>>I just tried this on another machine running IE 6.0.2600.0000, this time 
>>>on WinXP. Same deal... page cannot be displayed. Hit back and retry.. 
>>>same error. Hit back and retry again and the order goes through.
>>>
>>>Just before this I had cleared my apache error_log and my store's 
>>>error.log. Afterwards I checked these logs but no entries related to 
>>>this issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>DB
>>In your case it really sounds like you need the Apache/mod_ssl/MSIE 
>>work-around enabled in httpd.conf. You can get more info at the 
>>openssl/mod_ssl websites, and in most distributions of Apache, the 
>>workaround is already in httpd.conf, but it is commented out. I'd send 
>>you a link, but the ssl sites seem inacessible from here right now.
>>- Ed L.
>
>I have the following in place in httpd.conf... is there anything else I 
>should try :
>
>
>BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
>
>
>SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
>          nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
>          downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

For my two cents, I had this problem (even with the SetEnvIf workaround) on 
Red Hat 7.1 until I upgraded to a newer version of 
mod_ssl/openssl.  However, from the reports I've seen, most people are 
already running 2.8.10, so there must be another variable here somewhere.

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