This could quite possibly be something that has driven me nuts tracking
down.
We have a problem for IE 5 only where links on the SSL side will sometimes
not be displayed when clicked on. A reload works fine.
What we found was that the packet would leave the machine, but not reach
the actual server. The packet was dropped somewhere in our network. This
happened only in our production environment, not our development
environment.
Our firewall people are currently testing this problem and feel that it is
probably the wirewall or some device that is dropping the packet. Chances
are there is some non-critical problem with the packet (data or
otherwise) that the device or firewall considers offending.
Hope this helps somehwat. We only have the problem with IE 5 on the SSL
side. You may want to run tcpdump on your server to see if the packet with
the request actually shows up.
Jeff
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, James Treworgy wrote:
> I am running apache 1.3.12 + mod_ssl 2.6.4 (openssl 0.9.5a) + mod_php
> 3.0.16 on RH Linux 6.0, though this problem has occurred in previous
> versions of the software (e.g. 1.3.9 + prev. mod_ssl). mod_ssl is
> installed as a dso.
>
> A user clicks a "submit" button on a form, or even a link, on an insecure
> page which loads a secure page. In my testing, occasionally the first time
> you click the button it will come up with a server error e.g. "can't find
> page". Clicking the back arrow and clicking the button again always works,
> and the problem will not recur in that session, but of course most users
> won't figure this out! I generally use IE5 which is where this error has
> been happening, I haven't been able to reproduce it yet in Netscape. The
> action of the URL is a complete url (e.g. "https://xxx.xxx.xxx/x.php3")
> which happens to be a different domain -- but same physical server - than
> the referring page, though I can't imagine that this could be related.
>
> Any ideas? My gut tells me that the server hangs for a sec when first
> starting a secure session and for some reason. (My server hosts a few
> fairly low traffic web sites). I thought installing it as a DSO might help
> but it still happens. I can't seem to create a specific circumstance under
> which it will happen - e.g. if I restart httpd it won't do it the first
> time I hit the site, it just happenssometimes.
>
> James Treworgy
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