For what it's worth, I'm currently experiencing the same problem with
Netscape Communicator 4.61. Both client and server are inside our firewall,
so the firewall is not a factor.
I've run a sniffer on my client box and what I've found so far is that at
some point my server sends a FIN and then a RESET which my Netscape browser
promptly ignores and tries to continue the SSL session. (I just started
digging into this and my initial scan of the packets didn't find a SSL CLOSE
NOTIFY from the server.) The browser just sends an SSL application packet
and waits for the response that never comes. It seems to be the result a
weird race condition that I have not been able to define.
It would be interesting to see if your problem is somehow related to the
same thing.
I'm running:
HPUX 10.2
Apache 1.3.12
Mod-SSL 2.6.3
OpenSSL 0.9.4
If I don't find any thing obvious from the packet analysis, my next step was
going to be to upgrade Mod-ssl and maybe OpenSSL (although I thought I'd
read on the list that Openssl 0.9.5 and mod-ssl didn't play nice together)
Please let me know if you find out any info on your end.
Thanks,
Deb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: August 07, 2000 5:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Apache (mod_ssl) & Netscape 4.08 Constipation
>
>
>
> I've set up a secured webserver under OBSD 2.7 - While testing I
> noticed something unusual - I realize this not be on-topic for this
> list, but before I pursued it further I thought I'd ask here
> to see if
> anyone else has seen this.
>
> made all my certs, keys, etc
> started w/ #httpd -DSSL
> httpd starts w/ no problems
>
> The secured webserver is outside my firewall
>
> Windows client browsers are all inside the firewall
>
> When testing with the Navigator 4.08 browser fm a WinNT box (I'm
> browsing the Apache & mod_ssl docs over SSL) I get several successful
> page loads in succession, but then the browser just appears to "hang"
> (hang = the meteor shower in the Netscape icon continues, but
> no page is
> loaded). No amount of waiting seems to cure this - if I close
> Navigator
> & re-start I can get a few more pages before this happens
> again. I tried
> this from another WinNT box w/ Navigator 4.08 & saw the same behavior.
>
> Poking around in the Apache logs revealed nothing interesting (to me,
> anyway).
>
> When testing w/ Internet Explorer, I don't encounter this problem. I'm
> banging away at the secure webserver, no delays or constipation of any
> kind. In other words, it works like I hoped.
>
> This appears to be a Netscape problem, but if there's something that I
> can do server-side to correct it I'd very much like to do that.
>
> Thanks,
> James Moore
>
>
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