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cjobes
5/29/2004 12:53:51 PM
Hi everyone,

I'm testing a new app on a standalone 2003. The website is mapped to a
single IP address that is only used by this website. The app works fine with
anonymous access. I want to use SSL for the sole purpose of encrypting
traffic. User authentication is done within the app.

I installed a certificate server (root CA) on the same box and added the
certificate to the website. I then checked "ignore client certificates".
When I try to connect to the website with http it correctly tells me that
SSL is required. When I try to connect with https://ipaddress I get an error
that the page is not available.

Why is this not working? I tried the IE on the server as well as IE from
another box on the local net. Both IE have SSL 2 and 3 enabled.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Claus

cjobes
5/30/2004 9:51:04 AM
Some further info on this.

The server is listening on port 443. I checked it with telnet. The lab setup
is a workgroup. The DNS has a zone testlab.com with 2 entries (www and
webserver) pointing to the IP that the website is using. the certificate
name is webserver.testlab.com. Ping works for IP as well as the 2 names. The
app comes up with both names and the IP when I disable SSL.

I searched MS and everything else I could find on the net. Does anybody have
an idea what else I can try?

Thanks,

Claus
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cjobes
5/30/2004 1:47:42 PM
Additional Info:

I found the SSL Diag tool (great help). The problem is the cert that I
created with cert server. I don't know why yet, but if I use the SSL Diag
tool to create a new cert, the website works. Now the question is, why does
the cert server create a cert that isn't working?

Does anybody have any idea about this one?

Thanks,

Claus
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cjobes
5/31/2004 10:09:49 AM
The error was during negociation. -28....... kind of error. KB brought up 2
problems that didn't relate to my situation. I assumed that the cert was
somehow faulty and created a new one with selfssl. That fixed it.

The app comes up and works but every second or third screen I get the
warning box "This page contains both secure and non secure items. Do you
want to continue?" It doesn't seem to matter if I click yes or no. The app
will continue working. But this will drive my users nuts!

Does anybody know what causes this?

Claus
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Bernard
5/31/2004 6:34:15 PM
what's the error SSL diag report ?
anything in event log ?

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



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cjobes
6/1/2004 9:21:11 AM
I looked through some of the code (it's a big app). Everything I saw is rel
ref like ../images/abc.gif. which means that it should stay in https -
right?

With regard to the other post, I'm aware that I can change the browser
settings, but that doesn't fix the problem at the server.

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Bernard
6/1/2004 4:10:32 PM
Ok. the SSL cert is meant for inhouse dev test purposes. and for your
previous cert without more error detail, I don't know what's wrong with it.
Next, regarding the browser warning. it is due to you are browsing https
page, but inside it you have refer to non https page. e.g. your image ref is
using 'http://aaa.com/images/abc.gif".... you can solve this by removing all
http reference in the page.

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



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Andreas
6/1/2004 10:28:43 PM
Try whit netscape browser, then the error message is clearer ,but i also try
with the ms cert server but I didn´t get it work , then I try with
www.freessl.com ( the 5$ version and it work!!

God look

Andreas

Bernard
6/2/2004 2:42:27 PM
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what browser setting ? what problem at the server/

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.tryiis.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/
http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/



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