Re: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures

2002-05-17 Thread Peter Viertel
Let me guess you have a  '128 bit' SGC certificate on  your server? If you do then change your cipher  suite to not offer EXPORT56  for example: SSLCipherSuite !EXPORT56:ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL This  results in  most  people with  older client

RE: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures

2002-05-17 Thread Jeff
> In addition, a large proportion of our customers have little or no > previous IT experience and cannot be expected to apply patches no matter > how trivial it may seem to us! We had some top-notch technical people spend more than three months, setting up an isolated web/client environment to du

RE: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures

2002-05-17 Thread John . Airey
Simply send them to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and talk them through it if you have to. Things could get worse for them if they don't anyway. - John Airey Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the Blind, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, Tel.: +44 (0)

Re: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures

2002-05-17 Thread Louis Sabet
On Fri, 17 May 2002 13:51:15 +0100 "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MS IE 5.00 was a flawed release, that MS very quickly (4 weeks) replaced > with 5.01, mainly for security reasons. You should be able to get any > reasonable users (corporate or otherwise) to upgrade asap. MSIE 5.00 has > som

RE: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures

2002-05-17 Thread John . Airey
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 F

RE: IE 5.00 - 5.01 SSL Connection Failures

2002-05-17 Thread Jeff
MS IE 5.00 was a flawed release, that MS very quickly (4 weeks) replaced with 5.01, mainly for security reasons. You should be able to get any reasonable users (corporate or otherwise) to upgrade asap. MSIE 5.00 has some serious bugs when using SSL and cacheing, so you may be able to tweak all yo