[ale] I'm totally stumped with an ssl connection error

[Dustin Strickland]

To further confuse matters, when I visit http://gaares.org:443/ I receive
the "Bad Request" message with Chrome and IE on Server 2008 R2. Seems to me
like Apache is just doing whatever it feels like :P http://bit.ly/1QA6blm

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Ben Coleman <oloryn at benshome.net> wrote:

> On 2/13/2016 07:27 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Is it possible the server is using encryption methods now deemed
> > unsuitable and some browsers are flagging that as a connection error?
>
> That was my first thought, also.
>
> A few more observations:
>
> 1.  Here it fails on FF on both Win 10 and Ubuntu 15.10, but the error
> is different:
>
> An error occurred during a connection to gaares.org. SSL received a
> record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code:
> ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
>
> 2.  If you're on Ubuntu 14.04, there was an Apache update on about Jan
> 27 or 28.  Could the problem have started after that upgrade was applied?
>
> 3.  I also note (as did Allen) that going to http://gaares.org:443/
> returns a valid page, but it looks to me like it's returning the parent
> of the default page (i.e. /var/www).  Going into the html directory in
> that index produces the Apache2 Ubuntu Default page.  This seems to
> point to a config error of some kind for gaares.org on port 443.  Going
> via the ip address (i.e. http://107.189.47.100:443/ produces the
> expected "Bad Request] Your browser sent a request that this server
> could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an
> SSL-enabled server port.  Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this
> URL, please." (which is what you would expect to get from
> http://gaares.org:443/).
>
> Ben
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