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

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Aug 5 14:01:01 2002


At 10:50 AM 8/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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.

Thinking about it a little more, I realize that one could probably run 
mod_ssl 2.8.10 with a very old openssl.  Does anyone with the problem want 
to try 0.9.6e (warning: you'll probably have to recompile the entire 
apache) and see if you can still replicate the problem?

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