Re: [cobalt-users] Deadly slow admin after self-signed certificate on RaQ3

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Are you on a mac? Using Netscape?  I had the same problem.  I had to switch
to Opera to use the admin area with SSL because IE5 can't do self signed
certificates and netscape was very, very slow to say the least.

on 2/26/02 6:21 PM, Charlie Summers at charlie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Folks;
> 
>  I've been playing around with self-signed certificates, and have seen a
> completely reproducable situation. Every time I create a self-signed cert,
> the admin pages (site or main, doesn't matter) take FOREVER to load through
> https. When I say "slow," I don't mean a little slow, I mean between five and
> ten MINUTES for the admin pages to load. They all seem to work perfectly,
> they just load at a truly GLACIAL rate.
> 
>  This situation is confined to the admin pages; any other page loads under
> https just peachie, thanks (usual errors on insecure graphics not
> withstanding, of course) with no appreciable slowdown in load time.
> 
>  I can't figure out what's going on here...top shows the usually high idle
> time and low load averages (there are only a couple of sites on this machine;
> it's primarily used for mail), and px -A shows only httpd processes. Am I the
> only one who sees the admin load time go to the blazes when using a
> self-signed certificate? I mean, it isn't like I use the admin sections all
> that much, but this makes them effectively unusable when there's a
> self-signed cert on the server. (I have no idea what would happen with a
> "real" cert, I don't have nor need one right now.)
> 
>        Charlie
> 
> 
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