[imp] SSL error in IE 5.x 56-bit encryption pack.

[Eugene Miretsky]

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Chris Crowley wrote:
> 
> My webmail's apache server redirects a plain http request to the secure URL.
> 
> This works great except for users of IE 5.x who have SSL 3.0 enabled in
> their 56-bit encryption browsers.
> 
> There are two simple solutions to this problem. Upgrade to 128-bit or turn
> off SSL 3.0.
> 
> But, the problem is that I cannot force apache to ErrorDocument when this
> error occurs. I have tried to include the relevant error codes I found
> documented:
> 400 , 402 ,403 ,404 ,405 ,406 ,407 ,408 ,409 ,410
> 500 ,501 ,502 ,503 ,504 ,505
> 
> I included these directives in both the main server configuration and the
> Virtual Host for my secure server.
> 
> But IE 5.x always offers this a page to its users:
> res://C:\WINNT\System32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm#http://webmail.tulane.edu/
> 
> Any suggestions for handling this error?  The optimal solution is to
> configure the apache server such that a user who is unable to connect to the
> site securely will be redirected to another server's webpage that explains
> the problem nonsecurely (http).
> 
> One thought I had was that IE might try to do a lookup at Microsoft, and
> when this fails, it returns this page as a default. Does anyone know if this
> occurs?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the assistance.
> 
> Chris
> 
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