Secure site problems since Webkit 312
Since Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later came out, I have often experienced problems with many secure sites which results in Safari displaying the following: *** Safari can’t open the page. Safari can’t open the page “https://www.abc.com” because the network connection was reset, which sometimes occurs when the server is busy. You might be able to open the page later. *** These will either occur when trying to log in, or will happen after a successful login when jumping to a different page on the same site. In fact it has become so commonplace nowadays that I switch to Firefox before bothering to visit such a site. Interestingly, I sometimes get an error being reported in Safari's Activity window "POSIX error: Connection reset by peer" on a sub page that I am trying to go to. If I then double-click that page in the Activity window it will come up OK. I really don't believe the servers are busy and I think there has been some kind of regression in Webkit 312 and later. I never had problems in 10.3.8 and earlier. Since these are secure sites (often banking sites) it is impossible to provide a test case. However, if you bank with HSBC in the uk (or maybe even in the US), you may be able to reproduce this yourselves. Matt Gough
On Jun 22, 2005, at 4:18 AM, Matt Gough wrote:
Since Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later came out, I have often experienced problems with many secure sites which results in Safari displaying the following:
*** Safari can’t open the page.
Safari can’t open the page “https://www.abc.com” because the network connection was reset, which sometimes occurs when the server is busy. You might be able to open the page later.
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I've heard other reports like this. This bug is in NSURLConnection in the Foundation framework, not in WebKit itself, so this mailing list is not really the place where we can deal with it. You should report it at <http://bugereport.apple.com>. There's a similar bug seen on Tiger that will almost certainly be fixed in a software update. I'm not sure if the bug is known to happen on Panther, so a report from you that's Panther-specific might be quite useful to the team that works on NSURLConnection in Foundation. -- Darin
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Darin Adler
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