Hello,
I realize this is a Mozilla developer newsgroup, but I hope my question will go direct to someone who knows how to diagnose the problem correctly (I don't have that knowledge):
An hour or two I tried ordering a book at amazon.ca (the Canadian branch of the Amazon monster) using the release version of Mozilla 1.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113) on Windows 2000 (SP4). On the MS IE 6.0 browser, the encrypted connection was "TLS 1.0, RC4 with 128 bit encryption (High); RSA with 1024 bit exchange"; the Mozilla page information merely gave "High-grade Encryption (RC4 128 bit). However, setting up the connection appeared to be a real problem for Mozilla: at various points--seemingly randomly chosen pages--in the succession of HTTPS pages leading to the final checkout confirmation page, the browser would throw up a dialog indicating that there was no common encryption that could be agreed upon, and no further progress was responsible. So I restarted the whole process (flushed the browser cache, etc.), and tried it again. Finally it worked. (The web server was Stronghold/2.4.2 Apache/1.3.6 C2NetEU/2412 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 according to the Mozilla headers info page.)
Is this simply a case of Mozilla being more stringent in its HTTPS implementation than MS IE 6.0, or simply some random communication link problem, or something else entirely? (I'm so used to Mozilla performing reliably with most websites I've pretty much given up using the MS browser for anything.)
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