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. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.5°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org