Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1125 mails)

[Bernhard Voelker <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/10/2012 10:08 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
> Normally I have no problem with https, but yesterday I tried accessing
> the 3ware web-service running on a storageserver, and that simply
> didn't work.  I googled some and saw references to some possible
> mozilla SSL/TLS problem - I then tried opera instead, and that worked
> fine! 
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or similar?

https is using a chain of trust. It's possible that the website's SSL
cert was certified by someone your browser did not trust ... but another
browser did (because it's trusting different root certificates).

... or the website temporarily changed the SSL cert to e.g. a self-signed one.
... or there was a network problem and the SSL startup handshake was corrupted.

BTW: "that simply didn't work" is not a very useful message. The browsers
usually show detailed information about the certificate and its chain
until the root certificate. If something is wrong, then it will complain
e.g. that the cert expired.

Have a nice day,
Berny
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