Re: The OCSP server experienced an internal error

2018-01-20 Thread David E. Ross 
On 1/20/2018 7:13 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
> 
>> I went to [Edit > Preferences] on the SeaMonkey menu bar and
>> selected [Privacy & Security > Certificates] on the left side of the
>> Prefeences window (under Category).  If I clear both checkboxes under
>> OCSP, I have no problem reaching google.com; but I refuse to surf the
>> Web in such an insecure manner.  If I check only the first checkbox,
>> I again have no problem; but that is still surfing in an insecure
>> manner.  If I check both checkboxes, the problem still exists.
> 
> Fair points.
> 
> So why should we care if our connection to Google is secure? It's just a 
> search engine.
> 

That is a very good question.  However, Mozilla is working towards
having Firefox mark all non-HTTPS Web sites with warnings.  There have
even been suggestions at other organizations that their browsers reject
attempts to view non-HTTPS sites.

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Re: The OCSP server experienced an internal error

2018-01-20 Thread Paul B. Gallagher 

David E. Ross wrote:


I went to [Edit > Preferences] on the SeaMonkey menu bar and
selected [Privacy & Security > Certificates] on the left side of the
Prefeences window (under Category).  If I clear both checkboxes under
OCSP, I have no problem reaching google.com; but I refuse to surf the
Web in such an insecure manner.  If I check only the first checkbox,
I again have no problem; but that is still surfing in an insecure
manner.  If I check both checkboxes, the problem still exists.


Fair points.

So why should we care if our connection to Google is secure? It's just a 
search engine.


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Re: The OCSP server experienced an internal error

2018-01-20 Thread David E. Ross 
On 1/20/2018 12:23 PM, meagain wrote:
> On 1/19/2018 5:37 PM, Lee wrote:
>> On 1/19/18, meagain  wrote:
>>> On 1/19/2018 4:26 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:
 meagain wrote:
> What did I do and How do I fix it?

 Odds are that you attempted to connect to a web server that may have an
 invalid security certificate.  It tends to happen around this time of
 year.

 Call or email them and tell them to fix it.
 Temporarily you can be not as secure until they fix it by setting
 security.OCSP.enabled  to False
 I would not leave it that way though.
>>>
>>> Got it!   require
>>
>> What's going on?
>>
>> change
>>security.OCSP.require
>> to true and I get the
>>Secure Connection Failed
>>An error occurred during a connection to www.google.com.
>>The OCSP server experienced an internal error.
>> trying to load https://www.google.com, but then change
>>security.OCSP.GET.enabled
>> to true and it works!?
>>
>> Lee
>>
> 
> I set both ...enabled   and ...required to   "true" and all is well 
> again.  How they got missmatched is a mystery.
> 

I went to [Edit > Preferences] on the SeaMonkey menu bar and selected
[Privacy & Security > Certificates] on the left side of the Prefeences
window (under Category).  If I clear both checkboxes under OCSP, I have
no problem reaching google.com; but I refuse to surf the Web in such an
insecure manner.  If I check only the first checkbox, I again have no
problem; but that is still surfing in an insecure manner.  If I check
both checkboxes, the problem still exists.

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Re: The OCSP server experienced an internal error

2018-01-20 Thread meagain 

On 1/19/2018 5:37 PM, Lee wrote:

On 1/19/18, meagain  wrote:

On 1/19/2018 4:26 PM, Paul in Houston, TX wrote:

meagain wrote:

What did I do and How do I fix it?


Odds are that you attempted to connect to a web server that may have an
invalid security certificate.  It tends to happen around this time of
year.

Call or email them and tell them to fix it.
Temporarily you can be not as secure until they fix it by setting
security.OCSP.enabled  to False
I would not leave it that way though.


Got it!   require


What's going on?

change
   security.OCSP.require
to true and I get the
   Secure Connection Failed
   An error occurred during a connection to www.google.com.
   The OCSP server experienced an internal error.
trying to load https://www.google.com, but then change
   security.OCSP.GET.enabled
to true and it works!?

Lee



I set both ...enabled   and ...required to   "true" and all is well 
again.  How they got missmatched is a mystery.

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