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icon1.gif   ssl problems, posted by Olaf Kasten on Fri Feb 10 11:54:35 2012 
    icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by John Doroshenko on Fri Feb 10 17:18:25 2012 
       icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Feb 11 05:43:33 2012 
          icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Christian Herzog on Sat Feb 11 22:05:36 2012 
             icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Feb 11 22:19:07 2012 
                icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Christian Herzog on Sat Feb 11 22:27:15 2012 
                   icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Sat Feb 11 22:37:34 2012 
                      icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Olaf Kasten on Mon Feb 13 21:44:05 2012 
          icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by John Doroshenko on Tue Feb 14 00:55:58 2012 
             icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Tue Feb 14 14:54:06 2012 
                icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Diego on Tue Feb 14 17:17:44 2012 
             icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by John Doroshenko on Tue Feb 14 20:41:08 2012 fire10elog.patch
                icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Feb 16 18:10:33 2012 
                   icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by John Doroshenko on Thu Feb 16 23:56:35 2012 
                   icon2.gif   Re: ssl problems, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Feb 20 14:53:04 2012 
Message ID: 67198     Entry time: Tue Feb 14 20:41:08 2012     In reply to: 67195     Reply to this: 67201
Icon: Reply  Author: John Doroshenko  Author Email: doroshenko@physics.rutgers.edu 
Category: Bug fix  OS: Linux | Windows  ELOG Version: 2.9.0 
Subject: Re: ssl problems 

John Doroshenko wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

John Doroshenko wrote:

Olaf Kasten wrote:

 Hi there,

I have a connection problem with an actual elog installation. Many Browsers like as Chrome, Firefox and IE don't  connect to the elog server with ssl = 1 in elogd.cfg. 

I tested with Firefox 3.6 and IE 7 installations and there are no problems.

I guess it's a bug. Does someone have a suggestion to solve that problem?

Thx. Olaf

 Hi!

This just started happening here also.  Some users can't get on to a SSL=1 config'd elog using either IE or firefox 10 (win7 or linux) or chrome.  SAFARI works.  Occurs in 2.8.0 and a newly built (even after

ssl yum updates) 2.9.0 version on SL5.5 system.  Seems to accept self signed cert then nothing.. (connection reset message).   Tried an stunnel from one port to port running elog

with SSL=0.  Same behavior.  Doesn't work on some browsers.  Any clues?

Thanks,

-John

Hi everyone,
it appears that many people have this problem. I believe this is simply a problem of your firewall settings. There are two simple checks you can do to test if I'm right or wrong:
  • Run your logbook on the standard port 443 and retry. If the special port has been opened on the firewall, it has been likely only opened for specific clients like firefox 3.6, IE 7, etc. If you use a different client (FF 10, IE 9) the port can be blocked.
  • Or just run the browser that does not work on the ELOG server. If it works to access ELOG via localhost, then you know for sure that it is the firewall.
I've actually tested it here at my institute: I've downloaded firefox 10 and could access ELOG on port 443 but couldn't access it on port 444, unless I've started FF10 on the ELOG host.
To John, Olaf and Christian: If you need to be able to use a special port and a certain set of browsers then just contact your computing division or whoever maintains your firewalls.
 
I hope this settles the matter.
Cheers
Andreas
 
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PS: I've solved this with the help of google  : have a look at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2295421#2295421 about firewalls

 Hi,

Thanks for the reply. 

The elog server is running SL5.5 (updates applied).  As you suggested, I ran firefox 3.6.26 on the elog server via https://localhost:port and it worked fine.   Downloaded firefox 10.0.1 and retried

on elog server and get error again:  The connection was Reset; The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

-John

 

 Hi,

One of our sys admins discovered that Firefox 10 appeared to send parts of the initial GET in two parts.  As if there was a flush() after the "G" and this caused elog problems.  By making the change in

the patch below, the read loop is re-entered again after the 2nd part of the GET comes in.   Firefox 10.0.1 then works with ELOG with SSL.   Stefan... perhaps you can take a look to see if there is a

better way to accomplish this? 

One side effect with it done this way is that if you start a connection (ie, telnet localhost port) and type a single character,  the elog will block further connections until the telnet is terminated.

Thank you,

-John Doroshenko

Attachment 1: fire10elog.patch  641 Bytes  | Hide | Hide all
--- elogd.c.orig	2012-02-14 12:54:05.000000000 -0500
+++ elogd.c	2012-02-14 13:20:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -28805,7 +28805,9 @@
 
                   /* finish when empty line received */
                   pend = NULL;
-                  if (strncmp(net_buffer, "GET", 3) == 0 && strncmp(net_buffer, "POST", 4) != 0) {
+		  if (len < 4) { 
+		    pend = net_buffer + len;
+		  } else if (strncmp(net_buffer, "GET", 3) == 0 && strncmp(net_buffer, "POST", 4) != 0) {
                      if (len > 4 && strstr(net_buffer, "\r\n\r\n") != NULL) {
                         pend = strstr(net_buffer, "\r\n\r\n") + 4;
                         break;
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