[17025] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi netscape 4.61 and https not working properly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Counterman)
Fri Aug 6 09:09:52 1999
Message-Id: <199908061309.JAA17680@selenium.mit.edu>
To: Anne Salemme <salemme@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:59:43 -0400.
<199908052159.RAA229074@vegematic.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:09:44 -0400
From: "Craig A. Counterman" <ccount@MIT.EDU>
That's a problem with certificate negotiation with the version of
apache-ssl you're using on those servers, it's not Netscape's fault
and began before 4.61 but I don't remember when. I also forget if
this is fixed in a later version of apache-ssl.
The workaround is to go to 'security' and select "Navigator", and
disable SSL v3.
Craig
>i'm running athena 8.3.13 on an sgi indy. as soon as i started to use the
>new netscape (4.61) yestrday to connect via https to a couple of the
>webservers i run (search and lava-lamp), i noticed that i cannot get
>an https connection to search...i'm just sending in this observation, and
>will send more info if i can better narrow down the problem.
>
>the symptom:
> on sgi with netscape 4.61, going to https://search.mit.edu:443/ causes a
>"No User Certificate" window to pop up. but, i _do_ have a certificate.
>getting a new one, i see the same thing.
> using netscape 3.x (invoked from the dash menu), getting a new certificate
,
>and going to https://search.mit.edu:443/ does the correct thing.
>
>if i've sent this to the wrong address(es), please feel free to forward
>this to the appropriate place(s).
> anne
>
>
