[2267] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: SSL testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barber)
Wed Jun 26 11:43:27 1996
From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
To: risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vassilis Risopoulos)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606261203.OAA06389@rzcspc4.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> from "Vassilis Risopoulos" at Jun 26, 96 02:03:35 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Vassilis Risopoulos writes:
>
> I 'm trying to check a couple of SSL enabled servers using SSL and I always get an TCP: no route to host error.
> Normal http makes it though.
> I'm using the university's Netscape 2.02 BUT behind a firewall and proxied.
> Does this has anything to do with the problem and if not what's the matter?
Sounds like you don't have a proxy configured for secure connections.
In the Netscape Options->Network Preferences...->Proxies, you should
have a Security Proxy configured just as you have an ordinary HTTP proxy.
(Of course, this means that you must have a proxy server capable of
proxying SSL connections. Netscape has a defined protocol for this,
and of course, they'll be happy to sell you their Proxy Server that
implements the protocol. :-)
-- Jeff
