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Re: [LUG] Can't access certain ares of Orange web site

 

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:25:05 +0000
Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Simon,

> Started working when I disabled TLSv1 in Iceweasel (See Advanced, 
> Encryption).

Aha.  Thanks.  We have a workaround, at least.
 
> Re-enabling TLSv1 didn't seem to break, but likely I have a connection 
> still open.

It failed here.  Maybe I can't redo the prefs quick enough.   :-)

> There is a report of similar in the openssl mailing list, which again
> is the IBM HTTP server, which is basically Apache.

> One can probably debug it further with openssl, as Curl fails, but 

As I (think I) mentioned before, I rapidly got overwhelmed when I looked
at bug reports as the language was far too technical for me to follow.

I'll be keeping an eye out for opensssl upgrades and see if the problem
is eradicated.  In the meantime, there's the workaround.  I call it that
because I suspect, overall, disabling TLS is probably not a good idea.

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