SV: [cobalt-security] Admin Site w/ SSL (WAS: SSH Tunneling - Cheap client to use?)

["Kai Schantz, Euroweb" <kai@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:34 PM 8/19/01 +0200, Kai Schantz, Euroweb wrote:
>I did that on a Raq3i and a Raq4r after 2 days I had to remove it because
so
>many customer complaint. Netscape could not handle it at all. Netscape
>advised every visitors to not use the different websites because there
where
>something wrong with the certificate. If you still wanted to go ahead
>Netscape forced the visitor thru 7 steps of confirming that they wanted to
>see these WebPages!! MIE did not find anything wrong and just popup 1 time
>saying that there was a new certificate and if user wanted to accept and
>store it.

There is indeed "something wrong" with the cert -- it's not signed by a
recognized third-party.

I use Netscape 4.75 almost exclusively (sometimes Opera), and it does
require a rather involved series of dialogs when the site uses a
self-signed certificate.  After you do that process once, you don't have to
do it again for that site.

>But what finally forced me to uninstall was that on virtual sites that used
>subdirs Netscape renamed all WebPages in subdirectories to SHTML and this
>caused the pages not to be correctly displayed. I posted for help on the
>developerlist and cobalt support nobody could help because it was a
Netscape
>problem they said.Best regards

<Are you saying Netscape's FTP uploader did this?  What version of Netscape
<does this, and under what circumstances?

No, the Netscape browser did it..

Not rename like in saving a new name in the servers web dir., but the
browser did that on the client side.
If there was a file called cars.html in /web/auto/ (a subdir) and it was
linked to from a page in /web/  lets say from index.html. Then the file
cars.html was "renamed/displayed" as cars.shtml in the browser and was not
shown correct (mixing up layers, frames, etc).

I don?t now what caused this but everything looked fine in MIE5 and I even
tested in Opera.


Kai R Schantz
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