> when connecting to a mod_ssl-enabled server with versions of
> internet explorer 5.00.2614.3500IC or below, going through a cisco
> local director, we get broken images or page-not-found errors
> with some frequency, on something like 1% of the connections.

Although our setup is different I think you'll find the solution the same (the local 
director bit may 
be a red herring). We have 1.3.14 / 2.7.1 / 0.9.6 on Linux. Different versions of IE 
from 4.x to 
5.0x would produced diffrent results in different setups. Sometimes it was just broken 
images for 
a while and at other times IE complained it couldn't locate the server (actually 
broken 
handshakes most of the time we think). Netscape 4.x always worked flawlessly when 
tested in 
parallel on the same machine etc.

After trying everything we could think of the only 100% solution was to dissable SSLv3 
globally:

SSLProtocol all -SSLv3

We tried looking for answers on the lists etc. and tested all the workarounds and 
fixes we could 
find documented. Our conclusion was that this is due to undescribed SSLv3 cipher bugs 
in IE < 
5.5.

If someone has found a solution in the meantime we'd also be most gratefull to hear 
about it.

Mark

Mark Tiramani
FREDO Internet Services
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