SSL https:// wont connect.

[Quasmo]

Ok so I was at my neighbors house trying to get her computer working. She can access the internet fine except for one thing, when attepting to connect to SSL sites through Https:// I cannot connect. My first intuition was that it was spyware directing her through a proxy, so when trying to use SSL it wouldn't work, but I tried spybot, Microsofts spyware program and AdAware, and cleaned her system and still nothin worked. I tried installing firefox, and it simply tells me that the connection is refused to ANY website. She had windows firewall on, I turned that off, she had Norton on, I turned it off, I turned off third party apps in IE, and that didn't work either. I'm so damn confused.

 

[Thyme]

Try specifying the SSL port :443

Maybe IE thinks it's otherwise?

 

[Quasmo]

where do you specify that? and even if I did why wont firefox connect at all? Firefox will not connect to anything.

 

[kamper]

Kinda sounds like there's an outbound firewall somewhere that's only letting a few ports through. Does she have a firewall in her house? Is her isp particularly uptight?

Maybe you could try some other common ports, like ftp or something and see if those are blocked too.

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
where do you specify that? and even if I did why wont firefox connect at all? Firefox will not connect to anything.

https://www.site.com:443

But kamper is probably more likely to be correct.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: Thyme

Originally posted by: Quasmo
where do you specify that? and even if I did why wont firefox connect at all? Firefox will not connect to anything.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.site.com:443">https://www.site.com:443</a>

But kamper is probably more likely to be correct.

I already tried this. I've also checked her firewall to see if that had any settings that wouldn't let he through. Her sons computer on the wireless network is able to get through, its just her computer. I tried disabling norton and the windows firewall, and I still get nothing. Its bugging the crap out of me!!!

 

[Thyme]

All browsers?

 

[sciencewhiz]

did you check IEs proxy settings?

 

[kamper]

It just occured to me that I've seen this before :light:

Is the system date messed up on her computer? SSL certificates are dated and if her computer thinks the date is totally out of whack it could very well be rejecting the certificates. I had this with my dad's computer a while ago and I believe fixing the date is how we fixed it...