Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 214146
firefox cannot connect to some https sites from behind firewall
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:35 EDT
Description of problem: I cannot access the following sites when OCSP is turned on for certificate validation: https://login.vwbankdirect.pl https://www.r-bank.pl Firefox reports error -5990 and says it cannot start encrypted connection. As far as I know mozilla didn't have this problem. Now the really important part seems to be firewall and proxy. I have the following automatic proxy config: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { return("PROXY proxy.xxx.xxx.com:911"); } but browser seems to go directly and obviously fails (I can see SYN_SENT line in netstat -t going outside the firewall to 12.166.243.30:http for both of the above sites). I can access both of the sites from another machine where both sites are available directly. As a workaround I can disable OCSP. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.5.0.7-8.fc6.i386 How reproducible: Always Actual results: Firefox does not connect to a site. Expected results: Firefox connects to a site. Additional info: See also bug 192977. This bug is not fixed by the update as described there, it is only masked by default setting (OCSP is off by default).
Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. [This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Xorg or Gecko. If you see any other reason, why this bug shouldn't be closed, please, comment on it here.]
As of Fedora 8 and firefox-2.0.0.10-2.fc8.x86_64 this bug seems to be fixed.
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. {This is mass-closing of all obsolete bugs; if this bug was in your opinion closed by mistake, please, reopen it with additional information; thanks a lot and I am sorry for bothering you in such case.}