Re: [cobalt-users] secure cert & netscape

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> While I do want to thank everyone who's tried to help, I do notice with
> the exception of Rik's suggestion that I try a cert from freeSSL,
> everyone else has said basically, "tell the customer to change what he
> does so he can be your customer".

Sad isn't it?  That is why Microsoft is so popular, folks are lazy and
tend to take the path of least resistance resulting in mediocracy.  Have
you tried connecting directly to the site, without winproxy?  Have you
tried dumping winproxy's cache?  Maybe winproxy just hates self signed
certs?

>
> Is that really how to run a business?  Somehow I don't think so.
>

We do whatever it takes to support our clients, they have good reason to
select the tools they like.  Netscape/Mozilla is alive and well and has
quite the development community, in fact it seems to be more updated than
IE, they only IE updates are security fixes, trying to keep all of the
lemmings safe from themselves. :)

I had some free time today, since I have my office closed and installed a
self-signed cert on my RAQ 3 and it works just fine with Netscape 4.72,
Netscape 6.01, and IE if that matters.  But I do have a little flakiness
with netscape on linux with it, but runs fine on Konquerer.


> I'm still hoping for a solution.  Perhaps from Cobalt.  Perhaps from the
> list.

Are you sure it isn't winproxy?  Fly me out there Jeff and I will install
a linux solution for you. :)

>
> Jeff
>

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