Does the August IE Update block SSL sites?

[Guest]

Hi all,

I used to be able to access my SSL Webmail server (Using TCP port 2096) to
access my webmail hosted on an Open Source hosting service. Following the
installation of the August cumulative update for IE, I keep getting "Server
Cannot Be Found" error messages on IE. When I tried to access the server
using Firefox, there was no problem.

Is there a problem with the latest patch?

Thanks and regards,
Francis Lee

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE]

Make sure your firewall is not blocking port 443.
Go to Start | Run and enter these commans (press <Enter after each one).
Regsvr32 SOFTPUB.DLL
Regsvr32 Wintrust.dll
Regsvr32 Initpki.dll
Regsvr32 Dssenh.dll
Regsvr32 Rsaenh.dll
Regsvr32 Gpkcsp.dll
Regsvr32 Sccbase.dll
Regsvr32 Slbcsp.dll
Regsvr32 Mssip32.dll
Regsvr32 Cryptdlg.dll
See also
http://windows-help.net/WindowsXP/troub-10.html
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers2.htm#secure_sites
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/data/jjblack.htm
HOW TO: Troubleshoot Situations Where You Cannot Connect to Secure Web Sites
by Using Internet Explorer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813444
"The Page Cannot Be Displayed" Error Message on a Secure Web Site
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303807
How to troubleshoot problems accessing secure Web pages with Internet
Explorer 6 Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870700

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[Guest]

Thanks Frank. Unfortunately the problem is still with me, even after
re-registering the DLLs.

All those links that you have so kindly posted relate to problems that
cropped up before the August update. I could access the SSL site before the
August IE Cumulative Update. That was why I suspected the update has a bug...

Oh well, more troubleshooting....

Thanks and regards,
Francis Lee

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE]

Windows version?

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[Guest]

XP ServicePack 2

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE]

If you also visited the other references I gave, then I don't know.

BTW
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers2.htm#secure_sites
should be
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/archive/answers2.htm#secure_sites
and
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/data/jjblack.htm
should be
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/archive/data/jjblack.htm


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[Guest]

Thanks for your help Frank. I will just have to use Firefox for this and hope
MS fix the bug at the next update...

Regards,
Francis Lee

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

XP ServicePack 2

Try (in a cmd window)

netsh winsock reset

Notice that this command does not reset all winsock stack layers.


BTW Unless you have traced the link and proved that something wrong
is happening I see no "bug" in your symptom description.

Unfortunately, in the case of https: a standard packet trace may not
be very informative. For that there is this:

<title>KB307272 - How To Trace ServerXMLHTTP Calls Using the
Winhttptracecfg Tracing Tool in XML</title>

This probably isn't the best newsgroup to try to do a diagnosis of
TCP/IP stack problems on.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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[PA Bear]

Does the August IE Update block SSL sites? No.