>From what they posted, I get the impression they might be trying to hit
the httpd in question from another system doing http://127.0.0.0, and that
certainly would work not, at least not as they might think.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Owen Boyle wrote:

> Jeshua Lacock wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if when creating a test certificate, can the FQDN be
> > 127.0.0.1 or must it be a "live, qualified" domain name?  In other words
> > can I enter 127.0.0.1 as the FQDN and ServerName and expect it to work?
> > Currently I am getting a "(HTTPS): Busy, Retry" error...
> 
> I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work... As long as you have
> an SSL VH on 127.0.0.1 you should be able to connect to it. Note that
> you can even have a WRONG IP address in the certificate and SSL will
> still work - you only get a warning in the browser that the certificate
> and site addresses don't match.
> 
> I suspect your error message is caused by something other than the use
> of 127.0.0.1...
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> Owen Boyle.
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