268249 - Security alert when trying to log in at amazon.co.uk

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Get drop-down alert after entering email address & password and pressing "Sign
In". Alert says:

"Firefox and www.amazon.co.uk cannot communicate securely because they have no
common encryption alogrithm."

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Browse to item at Amazon.co.uk and click "Add to Basket"
2.Click "Proceed to Checkout"
3.Enter email address & password and click "Sign In using our secure server"

Actual Results:  
Firefox displayed error alert.


After error message, I went back to the previous page and again clicked "Proceed
to Checkout". This time it logged in ok.

Tried again 15 minutes later and again got error message.

Comment 1

[Ian]

Attachment: Screen capture of alert.

Comment 2

[Paul Walker]

Confirmed; I've seen this at home (Debian unstable) and at work (RH9). Both x86
boxes. Version at work:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Don't remember the one at home, but probably not far off. This only started on
Saturday, and seems to occasionally occur whenever you try to enter a secure
area. It seems most likely that Amazon have changed something.

Happy to supply debug info when it occurs again, if someone tells me what's
needed...

Comment 3

[russell-bugzilla]

This also happens under Windows XP SP2. Oddly, after waiting a while and trying
again it works.

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Does the workaround from Bug 265419 help?