http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10542.html
> All MSIE's do not work (incl. 5.0, 5.5, 6.0x Versions). > > Not working means: They work most of the time, but now and then especially > if the webuser is a minute or more idle the next request gives the infamous > "page cannot be displayed, server or dns error" - blaming nonsense. This sounds a lot like a problem I ran into with 2.7.2 running on Windows 2000. I reported it in mod_ssl's bugdb as PR #528 (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modssl&m=98361996627002&w=2 or http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10542.html ). This was fixed in 2.8.2, however, but only for Win32 (there's platform-specific read/write code in io_engine.c). The basic problem was that MSIE would somehow cause the socket to appear ready for reading, but there would be no data yet on the socket. This was treated as a failure, and the end result was MSIE's generic DNS error. The fix was to detect this case and retry (the logic already existed in another Win32-specific routine). See SSL_recvwithtimeout() and/or SSL_writewithtimeout(). You don't say what platform(s) you are running on, but if it's not Win32, I suppose it's possible that the same problem could be present in the other platform-specific variations doing I/O. (I have not looked to see if this is the case). You could see if a similar change would be appropriate there. Since implementing this fix about a year and a half ago (we actually ran with the fix before it was delivered in 2.8.2), we no longer experience this problem with MSIE. Good luck, Martin Dickau, ByAllAccounts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
