I had the problem with most all versions of IE (5.0, 5.5, and 6.0), but not Netscape (4.75, 4.76, and 6). I received the "Page cannot be displayed" and "Cannot find server or DNS error" messages. I was running Apache and mod_ssl as packaged with the Oracle9i Application Server (1.0.2.2) on a Windows NT 4.0 platform.
I did not completely eliminate the errors, but reduced them quite significantly by making the following changes: 1. Modified httpd.conf as follows: SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" ssl-unclean-shutdown 2. Oracle Worldwide Support patched the ApacheModuleSSL.dll file. The patch to ApacheModuleSSL.dll implements a workaround in the code for reading from a socket for WIN32. According to the details for the ApacheModuleSSL.dll patch, there was mention of a bug in the "select" function in Windows NT 4.0: "When checking a socket, if data can be read without blocking, select () returns yes, but when actually reading from the socket with recv(), that function returns WSAEWOULDBLOCK, which says that reading would block. It seems that this problem does not occur in usual operation, but only in an SSL enabled Apache (modssl or apache-ssl) with https. The code for WIN32, which handles writing to a socket, already contains a workaround for this. The code for reading from a socket did not have a workaround." Basically, they added a retry loop so that if a read from the socket failed, it tried the read again. Carol Kuczborski EDS - Enabling Business Solutions MS A6N-B47 13600 EDS Drive Herndon, VA 20171 * phone: +01-703-742-1025 (8-432) * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eds.com -----Original Message----- From: Julian C. Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MSIE + "The page cannot be displayed" error I am wondering if someone is keeping a list of working versus non-working versions of IE, and if not, whether one could be started. I am running into this issue as well, and my support department keeps harrassing me to come up with better solutions to tell the users other than "Use Netscape". Thank you Christopher for providing a non-working version number; does anyone know of a version # of IE which does work reliably? - Julian On 18-Jan-2002 Christopher Taranto wrote: <snip> > Fortunately (for my sanity), I have one of non-working versions of the MSIE > browsers (5.00.2614.3500) on one of the machines in my office so I can > repeatedly create the errors. <snip> -- Julian C. Dunn, B.A.Sc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Developer, VerticalScope Inc. 111 Peter St., Suite 700, Toronto, ON Tel: (416) 341-8950 x236 Fax: (416) 341-8959 istream >> ostream >> "We all scream for ice cream"; ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
