At 18:35 +0100 01.31.2001, Terje Bless wrote:
>On 31.01.01 at 07:22, Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>At 18:54 +0900 01.31.2001, KIMURA Takeshi wrote:
>>>I wish if SourceForge could support IE for Mac. Is it going to?
>>
>>It is supported. You just can't use SSL.
>
>BTW, if anyone has more information about this problem 1) I'd like to hear
>it for personal edification and 2) it should be linked to from the login
>page (i.e. write something up and send it to SF). This "magical" problem
>with MSIE, only on the Mac and only with SF, is starting to piss me off.
Well, as to how to work around it, it basically is mentioned on the page.
http://sourceforge.net/account/login.php
Which notes:
>Internet Explorer users will have intermittent SSL problems, so they
>should leave SSL after login. Netscape users should stay in SSL mode
>permanently for maximum security. Visit Microsoft for more information
>about this known problem.
And then there is a checkbox, "Stay in SSL mode after login". Just don't
check it.
Note that this means your username and password will be encrypted (you will
hit the site with SSL once), and then nothing else will be. But I am
personally not worried about not having an SSL session.
As to what the problem is: it has something to do with the type of
certificate SF uses. I've been told it is fixed in IE 5.5, but that it
certainly is a bug in IE. I cannot speak for SourceForge, but yes, I do
think it would be a good idea to use an SSL setup that works for all
browsers, even broken ones; not knowing the specifics, I don't know how
feasible this is.
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