Problem accessing some https sites

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:44, Jacques B. wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Jacques B. <jjrboucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What's the actual error message?  It could be a name resolution issue,
> > > if one thing works and others don't.
>
> I ran Wireshark and compared the output of my Windows box vs Linux box
> connecting to the online banking site.  In both cases I see the Client
> side Hello, Server side Hello, Certificate, and Key exchange,
> encrypted handshake, etc.  All seems to work pretty much the same on
> both sides (remembering that both are connected to a hub so I was able
> to do all my sniffing from the same environment - my Linux box).  But
> the Linux side just hangs with "Loading..." and "Waiting for
> www1.banking_url.com".
>
> Makes me wonder if it's a browser setting...
>
> So I try Konqueror - same thing. The status bar at the bottom has
> "Retrieving 26.8 KB from www1.banking_url.com" and nothing else.  Also
> hangs...
>
The usual suspects are javascript, flash, activeX.  I'd start by checking 
javascript settings.  Oh yes, and some such sites need popups available.

Anne
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