[webkit-dev] Secure site problems since Webkit 312

[Matt Gough]

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