[techtalk] Enough! (and a celebration of SSL victory)

[Amy]

Amen to Maureen's post, I lose it at the mention of
of a threat to post personal e-mail to a list. ::grrr:
That's my hot button, right there. But enough of that,
on to actual tech talk  :-) 

I am extremely happy that we solved an SSL
problem today that has been plagueing us for
awhile. I posted some time back, I believe,
about an SSL issue with some buggy versions
of Internet Explorer (versions which most
users of Windows 98 that never update their
systems have, which=ALOT of Windows users)
Anyway, today we installed RH7.1 with Apache 1.3.19
and the problems appear to have vanished. 
(images wouldn't show up in some when in secure mode,
page wouldn't display on others) If anyone else has this
problem with older versions of Redhat, there's the 
solution. I am sure it's actually the combination of
the Apache and the mod_ssl (certificate by Verisign) that 
actually made the difference. I had scoured the net for a 
solution (before 7.1 came out) and found a workaround, but
THAT caused Netscape to give a certicate warning
everytime, and didn't work on any Mac, period. It also 
gave errors in regular IE, but the images did display. 
Everything *seems* to be working now, and we've
tried it on several Mac browsers, Linux, the buggy 
version of IE, regular IE, and Netscape. So I am a 
happy camper today  :-) 


Amy