120952 - "Unknown socket type" error loading some pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47617

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[stevenj]

I am using a Macintosh running Debian/PowerPC (woody), with Mozilla 0.9.7, and
I've noticed that when visiting some pages (that work in Netscape 4.x) I get an
error: "Unknown socket type. Loading aborted."

Pages where the error occurs include donate.fsf.org as well as
http://etradebank.com/IBanking.cfm (which I remember worked in 0.9.5).

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Reporter do you have PSM installed ? Can you access other https sites ?

Comment 2

[stevenj]

Okay, I figured out that the problem was that I didn't have the mozilla-psm
Debian package installed (ah, I see that lhirlimann beat me to it).  So, this
isn't a bug in Mozilla per se.  However, it would be nice if a more informative
error message were supplied, e.g.:

"This link requires the Mozilla PSM (Personal Security Manager), which you do
not currently have installed."

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is now fixed.  The new message is: "This document cannot be displayed
unless you install the Personal Security Manager (PSM)"



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