As far as I'm concerned it deserves a miserable painful humiliating and ugly death. I spent September trying to debug a weird error - IE kept losing the DNS connection under SSL but not for all visitors. I eventually found it to be a bug in how IE handles SSL. IE should die!
>From the modSSL.org FAQ: http://www.antiwrap.com/?770 When I connect via HTTPS to an Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL server with Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) I get various I/O errors. What is the reason? [L] The first reason is that the SSL implementation in some MSIE versions has some subtle bugs related to the HTTP keep-alive facility and the SSL close notify alerts on socket connection close. Additionally the interaction between SSL and HTTP/1.1 features are problematic with some MSIE versions, too. You've to work-around these problems by forcing Apache+mod_ssl+OpenSSL to not use HTTP/1.1, keep-alive connections or sending the SSL close notify messages to MSIE clients. This can be done by using the following directive in your SSL-aware virtual host section: SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 -- It then goes on for a while talking about other IE specific flaws under SSL. larry On 11/14/05, Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > interestingly enough, this weekend my computer automatically decided I > should no longer use IE. My firefox and opera installs are able to > surf fine, but IE just sits there for a while and then times out and > gives a page cannot be found error. I'm probably gonna have a lovely > time debugging this one. > > > On 11/11/05, Andrew Grosset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great idea! get paid for turning users from IE to Firefox: > > > > http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/ > > > > details on how you get $1 per user here: > > > > http://explorerdestroyer.com/ > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Stay Ahead of Hackers - Download ZoneAlarm Pro http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=65 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:181766 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
