118459 - Unkown socket type. Loading aborted.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 47617

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Ford Prefect]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

I get the following error, as stated above, "Unknown socket type.  Loading
aborted."  I get this error at the above-listed site as well as the following
two sites:  https://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/ and
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/self-service-forgot-password-get-email/002-1602730-8678468?return-url-code=6&from-url-code=4&fqhn=true

The latter URL is gotten to by going to the following URL and entering an email
address and then click on "Forgot your password?" 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/002-1602730-8678468?page=stores/registry/wishlist/sign-in.html&response=registry/wishlist&method=GET&return-url-code=6&from-url-code=4&msg=nil

There have also been other instances where I click on a URL that should take me
to a site and it just sits there doing nothing (no error dialog).  I don't know
if it's connected to this problem, though.

This problem started happening recently.  I'm pretty sure I was able to access
all of these sites prior to the last couple of days.

This problem also happened with a 0.9.6 milestone build (I just upgraded to this
0.9.7 build and I did not write down which build it was).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Just enter these URLs in the location bar and hit ENTER.
2.  On the last one, you may need to go to the second URL I gave for that one
and enter an email address and click the mentioned hyperlink.

Actual Results:  Error dialog:  "Unknown socket type.  Loading aborted."

Expected Results:  Logged into the above sites or transferred me to a new page.

As noted below, I think this is a major bug (unless I'm missing something) as it
seems to effect at least several https sites.  Again, it's entirely possible
that I am missing something, but I cannot think of anything I have changed to
create this problem.

Comment 1

[gavin long]

Reporter : you have not installed Personal Security Manager (PSM), which is
needed to access secure sites via HTTPS.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47617 ***

Comment 2

[Tom Everingham]

verified dup