Re: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt and Chilisoft SSL error - The page cannot be displayed

["Brian Curtis" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The situation:
> > 1. At random, throughout the SSL portions of the site, we get
> > errors saying
> > " this page cannot be displayed " and at the bottom is says " cannot
find
> > server or DNS error ".
> > 2. If you can back and hit refresh, and then try again, it pulls that
same
> > page up fine.  Then at random you could get the same error on the
> > next page.
> >
> > 3. Sometimes when going through the site you don't get any errors.
> > 4. The problem happens in IE browser versions on 98, NT, and 2000 client
> > machines.
> > Has anyone else seen this problem?  Is there a patch from Cobalt or
> > Chilisoft that is needed?  Is there a certain SSL cert that is needed?
>
> suggest you check out this posting on the development list - I had the
same
> issue and Jonathon Michaelson found the answer !
>
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-November/024514.html

Actually, the "force-unclean-shutdown" and "force-response" directives are
standard with a custom Apache/mod_ssl/OpenSSL setup, and as I stated in my
previous emails, these custom machines would still fall prey to the "No DNS"
IE bug once in a while.  Of course this was back towards the early days of
IE 5, so some of the bugs were probably fixed as updates and SPs for IE were
released.

I'd imagine it's a combination of many different things (most of the problem
== IE) that would cause the user's browser to choke.  I was experiencing the
problem with more than just plain old Perl/CGI scripts; PHP, iHTML & Miva
just to name a few.

--
Brian Curtis