308695 - mbhs.edu - secure pages fail without ssl2 support

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P2)

Description

[Daniel C]

ben.mbhs.edu - secure pages fail without ssl2 support. Site should
upgrade. See bug 307271 for details.

Comment 1

[Daniel C]

Status: NEW -> RESOLVED
Resoultion: --- -> WORKSFORME

As Patrick Fey <[e-mail]> pointed out, this appears to be working
now.

Comment 2

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060620 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006062004 [cairo]

Error code: -12263

Comment 3

[Bob Lord]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060620
> Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006062004 [cairo]
> 
> Error code: -12263
> 

What did you do to get this error?

Comment 4

[Bob Lord]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Error code: -12263

From http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslerr.html :
"SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length." 

This generally indicates that the remote peer system has a flawed implementation of SSL, and is violating the SSL specification.

Comment 5

[Daniel C]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060620
> > Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006062004 [cairo]
> > 
> > Error code: -12263
> > 
> 
> What did you do to get this error?
> 

I ran today's trunk build with a clean profile, loaded this bug and then clicked the URL link listed in this bug, nothing more :-)

If I set security.enable_ssl2 to true, then I don't get that error, but I get the Firefox error page with "The connection to ben.mbhs.edu was interrupted while the page was loading."

Comment 6

[Bob Lord]

If you go to http://ben.mbhs.edu/ You'll see this message:
====
Blair's web server is currently experiencing minor difficulties. This also affects all mail coming to and from @mbhs.edu accounts as well as all shell access to the server. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to restore service as quickly as possible.
====
It looks like their servers are not doing well, which indicates a server problem and not a client problem. It's been that way for a few days. 

Marking Wontfix.

Comment 7

[Daniel C]

(In reply to comment #6)
> If you go to http://ben.mbhs.edu/ You'll see this message:
> ====
> Blair's web server is currently experiencing minor difficulties. This also
> affects all mail coming to and from @mbhs.edu accounts as well as all shell
> access to the server. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to
> restore service as quickly as possible.
> ====
> It looks like their servers are not doing well, which indicates a server
> problem and not a client problem. It's been that way for a few days. 
> 
> Marking Wontfix.
> 

This isn't a client product or componenent :-)

I'm re-opening for now as the site behaves differently with SSL2 disabled versus when it is enabled, but I'll check back next week to see if it's working again.

Comment 8

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060701 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006070104 [cairo]

Now it's working :-)