latest Firefox fails on https

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 22:02 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> In the hope I will not make a fool out of myself with this question:
> 
> I just brought my laptop to the very latest 8-CURRENT.  Worked without a
> hitch.
> 
> As a side project I decided to also bring all ports up to date to the
> latest.
> 
> One of the ports is Firefox.
> 
> Which now gives me the following error message on every https: URL that I
> try:
> 
> 	Unexpected response from server
> 	Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server.
> 
> 	    *   Check to make sure your system has the Personal Security Manager
> 		  installed.
> 	    *   This might be due to a non-standard configuration on the server.
> 
> I now have built from ports:
> 	firefox-2.0.0.11,1  Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> 	nss-3.11.7          Libraries to support development of security-enabled applic
> 
> A somewhat earlier Firefox 2.0.0.x (whatever the prebuilt packages server
> currently carries) I fetched via pkg_add -r gave me the same error message.
> 
> Firefox works just fine with normal http servers.
> 
> Google gives me lots of "me too" and assorted Linux crud but nothing
> relevant to FreeBSD unfortunately.

Rebuild devel/nspr, security/nss, then www/firefox, and you should be
fine.

Joe

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