odd ssl issue

with certain users, all browsers and an ssl accelerator you may see the following issue
blank content on page with the following error (in firefox) ssl_error_bad_mac_read other browsers just hang. It appears that a malformed ssl packet lands on the browser and the browser thinks the tunnel is broken.

I remembered an issue I had circa 1987 where a particular bar code would cause a cpu to lock up so programatically we had to do a work around when that product was scanned.

So, added a comment to the page where this problem was being seen. The problem stopped. Apparently a different bytecode size was all it took to fix.
Has anyone else seen this behavior?
thanx,
bill

Post #312,851 by boxley 8/20/09 2:44:54 PM Reply	odd ssl issue with certain users, all browsers and an ssl accelerator you may see the following issue blank content on page with the following error (in firefox) ssl_error_bad_mac_read other browsers just hang. It appears that a malformed ssl packet lands on the browser and the browser thinks the tunnel is broken. I remembered an issue I had circa 1987 where a particular bar code would cause a cpu to lock up so programatically we had to do a work around when that product was scanned. So, added a comment to the page where this problem was being seen. The problem stopped. Apparently a different bytecode size was all it took to fix. Has anyone else seen this behavior? thanx, bill
Post #312,857 by folkert 8/20/09 3:15:22 PM Reply	What SSL Accelerator are you using?
Post #312,860 by boxley 8/20/09 3:23:47 PM Reply	Re: What SSL Accelerator are you using? foundry
Post #312,873 by folkert 8/20/09 8:10:57 PM Reply	Re: What SSL Accelerator are you using? No info I can help with. I looked around for things. FYI. We use Squid in Accelerator mode as well as in reverse proxy cache mode.

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