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icon4.gif   problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 10:07:16 2012 
    icon6.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 10:50:43 2012 
       icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 14:05:46 2012 
          icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 14:48:36 2012 
             icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 15:08:53 2012 
                icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 15:26:04 2012 
                   icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 15:33:59 2012 
                      icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Yoshio Imai on Wed Jan 25 15:40:17 2012 
                         icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 15:42:17 2012 
                      icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Wed Jan 25 16:05:13 2012 
                         icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 16:13:22 2012 
                            icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Wed Jan 25 19:47:38 2012 
                               icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Feb 11 05:47:27 2012 
                                  icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Christian Herzog on Sat Feb 11 22:07:37 2012 
                                     icon2.gif   Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE, posted by Diego on Mon Feb 13 18:36:29 2012 
Message ID: 67167     Entry time: Wed Jan 25 14:48:36 2012     In reply to: 67166     Reply to this: 67168
Icon: Reply  Author: Andreas Luedeke  Author Email: andreas.luedeke@psi.ch 
Category: Comment  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.9.0 
Subject: Re: problems with https in Chrome and IE 

Christian Herzog wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Christian Herzog wrote:
[...] we're evaluating elog right now at the Physics Department of ETH Zurich and I'm trying to come up with a good config. One of the first steps of course was to enable SSL/https. With http, all tested browsers work fine, but with https at least Google Chrome 16 and IE 9 do not get past the "unknown certificate" warning and I see "TCP connection broken" errors in the log file. Firefox however works fine. Same behavior on Linux, Mac and Windows (given the browser in question is available). elog server is running on Lucid.[...]

 
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[...] The proper way out of this is to buy a certificate from a certification authority. Or to switch off https. (See https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#global SSL option)

we know about certificates, thank you 
The point is that it stops AFTER the point at which I tell the browser to accept the self-signed certificates. I now even got a CACert and the problem remains: FF works, Chrome and IE don't: https://phd-bkp-gw2.ethz.ch:8080/admin/
log says: TCP connection broken [...]

 
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Sorry that I was mis-interpreting your question
Unfortunately I don't know what's wrong with your set-up. I can confirm that I cannot access your logbook with "konquerer", but can access it with "firefox". The "konquerer" (on Scientific Linux 5.7) just gets timed out.
But I can access other SSL/https ELOGs with the konquerer. The problem only occurs with your logbook!
Therefore I would think it is a particular problem of your installation. I have three ideas how to isolate the problem:
  • first, I would try to change to the standard port 443. Just in case it is related to some firewall, etc. problem.
  • second, I would try another operating system than Ubuntu Lucid. It should work of course with Ubuntu, but if it still doesn't work with the other operating system then many things are already ruled out.
  • third, I would try to set-up an apache webserver in front of ELOG. We have it here just for safety reasons. ELOG runs then on some special port and apache connects to it with a reverse proxy.
The latter is a little bit of work (about a day) if you never set-up apache before. Therefore I would try the other two, first.
Good luck!

 

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