Finally, I have now been able to find the solution required to make mod_ssl work with IE5 on the Mac. As suggested by James Hastings-Trew, establishing a global sessioncache did it. In detail, one should add a line like the following near the top of the <IfDefine HAVE_SSL> section:
SSLSessionCache dbm:/var/log/apache/ssl_session_cache The default timeout of 300 s works well. In addition, the following directive recommended in the mod_ssl FAQ to support old 56bit export versions of MSIE 5.x would also be a good idea, but is not required for the current IE5 on the Mac: SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP Unlike recommended in the mod_ssl FAQ, these environment variables are *not* needed by any IE5 tested so far: nokeepalive, downgrade-1.0 and force-response-1.0 so it should be better to only set them in versions smaller than 5: SetEnvIf User-Agent "MSIE [1-4]\." nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 SetEnvIf User-Agent "MSIE [5-9]\." ssl-unclean-shutdown I'm hapy to have found this easter egg :-) -- Robert Allerstorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ANET - New Media Solutions Allerstorfer & Beutel OEG A-1070 Wien, Apollogasse 9/7 Fon: (+43 1) 929133-1 Fax: (+43 1) 929133-2 http://www.anet.at [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
