Re: [cobalt-users] Secure admin cert & slow connections

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie Summers wrote:

>    Got an odd problem, seemingly related to the one Mr. Lasman saw last fall,
> although not identical since he was receiving hard errors and I'm not.

My dad was Mr. Lasman.  I think one of my brothers is, too.  I'm Jeff
<smile>.

> I was screwing around today and created a self-signed certificate for SSL
> (I am not going to be using it for ecommerce, but rather to protect some
> specific transactions I want to make with the machine), and as a side effect
> the admin routines (which I use only when absolutely required, thanks) are
> now served by the secure server. (Kinda ugly, that - would make more sense if
> the script actually asked permission to pull a stupid stunt like that, but
> let it go for now.)
> 
>    And it is _glacially_ slow.

I eventually abandoned ssl for the admin, and switched to a secure
tunnel instead.  That worked fine.  Recently having switched DSL
providers, I went back and tried ssl again.  It works fine.  I've got no
answer.

> P.S. Oh, while I'm on the subject, if/when I _delete_ the self-signed
> certificate I'm playing with, will the admin go back to being served by the
> insecure,

Yes.

Jeff
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