65192 - Will not connect to a Novell Border Manager

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect, P3)

Description

[mhaug]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010110
BuildID:    2001011023

When redirected to a login/authentication page on a Novell BorderManager Server,
Browser Hangs.
This has been a problem will ALL versions of Mozilla that I have tried. M16
through current Also Netscape 6.
Works fine with Netscape 4.7x.
The url is something like https://192.168.10.100:443
Have the PSM installed, but no change.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Try to authenticate to a NovellBorderManager Server for internet access.

Actual Results:  Blank Page

Expected Results:  SSL page that requests user and password

Comment 1

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning to Crypto. Does this Novell server implement SSL 3.0 correctly? I
know we had compatibility problems with some Sun servers that did not.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New

Comment 3

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Submitter, Can you supply a URL of an actual Novell Border server
with which we can test?

Comment 4

[Bob Lord]

-> future, p3

Comment 5

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 90218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[John Unruh]

Mass assigning QA to ckritzer.

Comment 7

[sgblanch]

The Novell Border Manager will not work for me under Win98/ME Mozilla 0.9.2 and
0.9.3, build ID: 200108110. The certificate is accepted, but that does not
matter.  The url that should produce a login screen is below:

https://152.15.40.32:443/BM-Login/?%22http://mozilla.org/%22

Comment 8

[sgblanch]

There seem to be two seperate problems in connecting to a Border Manager Server
1. TLS must be disabled, for some reason... This is not specific to Mozilla.
2. The quotes, well must be quotes, not %22.
Below are the results of me using the url of my linux box to troubleshoot
[https://192.168.0.2/BM-Login/?"mozilla.org"
Mozilla 0.9.4's request:
[17/Sep/2001:14:25:32 -0400] 192.168.0.3 SSLv3 RC4-MD5 "GET
/BM-Login/?%22libweb.uncc.edu%22 HTTP/1.1" 282
IE5's request:
[17/Sep/2001:14:24:14 -0400] 192.168.0.3 SSLv3 RC4-MD5 "GET
/BM-Login/?"libweb.uncc.edu" HTTP/1.1" 282
Netscape 4.78's request:
[17/Sep/2001:14:53:39 -0400] 192.168.0.3 SSLv3 RC4-MD5 "GET
/BM-Login/?"libweb.uncc.edu" HTTP/1.0" 270

Comment 9

[byoung]

I have also been following the Mozilla builds fairly closely (upgrading with
every new release) in hopes that one of them will not have this problem.  I see
now that there are others that have experienced the same problem.  If here is
any sort of testing I could do to help out, I'd be glad too.

The company I work for is considering moving all new machines to IE and leaving
Netscape (old and new) behind.  I for one would hate to see that happen (freedom
of choice you know), but I won't be able to make a case for Mozilla if it
doesn't work with Border Manager.

Let me know what I can do to help.

Comment 10

[byoung]

Here some information that may help.  We now have two Border Manager proxies
running where I work.  One is using BM 3.5 and the other is using 3.6.  Mozilla
works fine with 3.6, but doesn't display anything through 3.5.

Hope that helps.

Comment 11

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Using a Mozilla 1.0 branch build, I just tried to connect to the URL mentioned
in comment 7.
I was able to connect and the login form is shown.
Marking worksforme.

Comment 12

[John Unruh]

Verified WFM.