RE: Can't view SSL-enabled pages using Firefox

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salcedo, Simon [mailto:Simon.Salcedo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:12 PM
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Can't view SSL-enabled pages using Firefox
> 
> OK.  I will do what Graeme and Sander suggest, but I am not sure why
> this will help solve the problem.  As many of you have pointed out,
> SSL-enabling a site usually does not cause any browsing problems when
> using Firefox.  

Do you understand what you are being asked to do? At the start of an SSL
session, the browser and server negotiate to decide what type of cipher
to use (the cipher is the set of algorithms to use when encrypting the
data). Normally, both sides have a wide range of ciphers installed (the
cipher suite) and so can reach agreement pretty quickly. It looks like
your server and browser have particularly restricted cipher suites so
cannot find a match and so can't communicate.

Commenting out the directive will allow the default setting to apply and
since this allows a wide range of ciphers, there's a good chance the
browser will be able to match it.

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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> 
> Another reason is that I searched the Internet (google search on the
> error message I am seeing) and some sites suggest that my new 
> server may
> not have all the crypto libraries installed.  I am running Apache on
> Solaris.  
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Simon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graeme Fowler [mailto:graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:47 AM
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Can't view SSL-enabled pages using Firefox
> 
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:09 -0500, Salcedo, Simon wrote:
> > I disagree that the problem lies on the Client side because I have
> been
> > to sites that have identical certificates as I was using and still
> > browse those sites.  I tend to believe that the problem is on the
> server
> > side.
> 
> Which is why Sander offered you a server-side solution:
> 
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslciphersuite
> 
> Make Apache offer its' standard CipherSuites, and then work 
> towards the
> config you have now. You may find the underlying problem this way, ie.
> that the client only supports a limited subset of ciphers.
> 
> Graeme
> 
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