Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1125 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> 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.

It's not really a website, it's a webserver on the storage server on our
local network.  It's not a temporary issue, I still have no connection
with Firefox, whereas Opera 9.62 works. 

> BTW: "that simply didn't work" is not a very useful message. 

I agree, but that is pretty much what Firefox tells me - "connection
reset". 

> 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.

Well, it doesn't in this case.  Besides, it works with Opera. 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (17.5°C)

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