latest Firefox fails on https
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Dec 27 15:19:40 PST 2007
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 22:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:03:03PM -0500 ..
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:42:54AM -0500 ..
> > >> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > >>> Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:36:37PM -0500 ..
> > >>>> 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.
> > >>> Took a while (P3 1.2GHz laptop) but it does not work, same problem still.
> > >> That sucks.
> > >
> > > Well.. it just tests my patience :)
> > >
> > >>> What makes me suspicious is that the precompiled 8-current package exhibited
> > >>> the same problem.
> > >> That's not good. SSL is working fine for me, and I see no reason why it
> > >> should show as disabled. Please provide the output of make configure
> > >> for firefox.
> > >
> > > Do you mean config.log ? I have attached that one, and mozilla-config.h
> >
> > No, the output of make configure would have been more useful. As would
> > work/mozilla/config/autoconf.mk after running make configure.
>
> Woops. Here is autoconf.mk
Okay, I'm stumped. The config looks like NSS was properly detected.
Perhaps there is a problem with this particular site. If you can,
please provide the URL you are using to test. There may also be a
configuration problem. Try creating a new, fresh account, and see if
firefox works there.
Joe
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