Re: [apache-ssl] can't complete SSL connection...ideas?
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Re: [apache-ssl] can't complete SSL connection...ideas?



Wyman Eric Miles wrote:
> 
> I'm using Apache 1.2.6 and SSLeay 0.9.0 under Solaris.  I've generated a
> certificate for Apache using "make certificate" and configured everything.
> The Web server starts without error but clients can't connect.
> 
> The clients (Communicator 4.x) present the usual dialog boxes about secure
> sites but never actually establish the connection.  If I try again, I get
> "the security library experienced an out of memory error.  try connecting
> again"

This is often caused by not filling in all the fields in the cert. I've
never looked at what gets logged, so this:

> The Apache logs show:
> 
> [Wed Apr 29 10:42:55 1998] Server configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Wed Apr 29 10:43:17 1998] SSL_Accept failed
> [Wed Apr 29 10:43:17 1998] error:14094412:SSL
> routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate

may not be inconsistent with that idea. Worth a try, anyway!

Cheers,

Ben.

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