Just to concur with Jeff, IE5.00 is useless. At the end of June Microsoft are dropping support for IE5.01SP2. I can't remember right now where I found that out, and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fdefault.aspx%3fscid%3dfh%3 ben-us%3bobsprodi Doesn't list IE5.01 as obsolete, although IE5.5SP2 is listed as a replacement for other versions of IE. Of course, the obsolete list is incomplete anyway (Office 97 is missing, as was mentioned in this weeks Woody's Office Watch. I'm the one who got it in there). A minimum of IE5.5SP2 is required now, although of course people will be using older versions. As an organisation we are dependant on IE (since we use VBScript a lot) and so we are moving up to IE5.5SP2 gradually. Having said that, I've just posted to Bugtraq a comment that the latest update (MS02-23, or Q321232 depending on your preferences) is refusing to install on some Windows 2000 machines. Don't we just love Microsoft? - John Airey Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the Blind, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Charles Darwin knew a fraction of what scientists know today, he'd never have written the Origin of the Species. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 May 2002 13:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures > > > > MS IE 5.00 was a flawed release, that MS very quickly (4 > weeks) replaced > [snip] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Louis Sabet > Sent: 17 May 2002 13:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures > > > Hi List, > > I work for a mobile phone retail company in the UK - www.mobiles.co.uk > > Recently we discovered that several of our customers were unable to > complete the secure portions of their orders. The only common factor > with all these problems were that all customers were using IE > 5.00 to IE > 5.01. > > Under Internet Explorer they receive "Page Connot Be Found". With > Netscape all works fine, and with all other recent Internet Explorer > versions, a successful connection can be made. > > I found nothing useful on the Microsoft site other than this: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q244302 > > It may be the root of the problem, but we cannot ask the 33% of our > customers who use IE5 to patch their machines before > accessing our site. > > It is obvious that MOST connections to https sites can be > made from IE5, > or it would have been better documented. > > I contacted Verisign to find out if there was a reason some > certificates > were useable with IE5, and others weren't, but I found their technical > support to be quite useless. > > My last option is to ask you guys whether this could be a > configuration > issue - or whether there is some configuration tweak I can make to get > around this problem for our IE5 users. > > Best regards, > > Louis > > -- > Louis Sabet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.webtedium.com/ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email's content. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the email and any attachments from your system. RNIB has made strenuous efforts to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any viruses which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RNIB. RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk 14th June 2002 is RNIB Look Loud Day - visit http://www.lookloud.org.uk to find out all about it. ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
