Re: [cobalt-users] secure admin cert & images/connections?

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> I've installed a self-signed cert on a client's RaQ4 before delivering
> it to colocation, and I find that we can no longer admin the site
> properly using Netscape 4.72 <frown>.

I would at least ask them to upgrade to 4.73.

>
> Images show up as broken.  We get lots of "can't connect" errors.
>

Read the source, see if the href's are going to port 80/81 instead of 443?
That could be it.

> IE 5.0 doesn't seem to have the problem, but the customer prefers
> Netscape 4.72.
>

IE all of them are painfully insecure and ignore many problems like
calling an insecure document within a secure document, among other things.
Netscape ain't broken in many cases, it just follows the rules whereas IE
makes their own rules to make the browser work with everything.

> Has anyone else had these problems?
>
Netscape has always been flakey, with tables, ssl and the like.  I still
stick with it.  But on my boxes, I have never had a problem with admining
with a secure cert, but I never have used a self signed one.

> Does anyone have any solutions?
>

It may be barfing on the self signed deal, I use certs from
http://www.freessl.com on my admin servers and the like.  See if that
fixed the problem.  Sorry it couldn't be more help.

> Jeff
>

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