I’ve encountered this bug I just can’t quite figure out, so I figured I’d put it here. Hopefully with a broader audience someone else had encountered it and perhaps this will lead to the root cause being identified.
For some reason Firefox 3 can’t access Webmin on port 10000, which is how it’s setup on a box I have. It worked in Firefox 2.0, but not 3.0. I’m not sure if it’s something to do with Perl’s Net::SSLeay, which Webmin uses for SSL support, or the port number being 10000. I’ve tinkered a little bit with SSL settings, but so far haven’t been able to figure out exactly what’s going on. It seems to be a regression in NSS.
Anyone notice a regression like this using nightly builds somewhere else? This is the only case I’ve personally experienced it. If you have, then visit bug 423499 and let us know.
Edit [5/4/08 @ 11:30 PM EST]: No idea what’s going on here, but apparently nobody else can reproduce, so calling it quits for now.
5 replies on “SSL Bug In Firefox 3b5”
i have no problems accessing a self-signed certificate on port 10000 (using iis5).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042705 Minefield/3.0pre ID:2008042705
I take it you’ve done the usual thing of creating a fresh profile and trying it. Reason is that my ‘dirty’ profile (from testing various alphas, betas and nightlies of Fx3) wouldn’t recognise EV certificates in Beta 5, until I refreshed it by deleting a number of the files.
I have several FreeBSD and Ubuntu boxes running Webmin on various ports and haven’t had any problems with several different people accessing them all using Firefox 3b5.
Try turning off HTTP pipelining and see if that helps.
Firefox 3 does not allow port 10000 (iy only alows port 80),
In my opinion a good security measure but in some cases like webmin you will need to enable the port
in ff3 type about:config (here be dragons),
add network.security.ports.banned.override with the values comma seperated eg 10000,10001 (webmin/usermin)
I’d reccomend changing the port first in ie then ebabling the correct ports in ff3 so you don’t have to change it twice.