[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 03/18/2015 06:06 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:41:25 PM walt wrote:
>> On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote:
>>> I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com
>>> using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76.
>>
>> Thanks to all who replied.  I'm surprised by the variety of different results
>> you reported.
>>
>> (BTW, I'm running firefox-bin-36.0, so the behavior may be a bit different 
> from
>> the gentoo build.)
>>
>> FF will not even show me the secure att.com webpage.  I get an entire html 
> page
>> with this (very big) error message:
>>
>> Secure Connection Failed
>>
>> An error occurred during a connection to www.att.com. The OCSP server 
> experienced
>> an internal error. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_server_error)
>>
>> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of 
> the
>> received data could not be verified.
>>
>> Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
>>
>>
> 
> That sounds more like a networking issue. Are you behind a firewall? Is it 
> possible that you somehow blocked their OCSP server? Can you bypass the 
> firewall for testing?

Wow, creepy.  I forced a warm reboot of my home wireless router and the problem
went away.  I now see the gray triangle with the ! and I have no idea how long
ago that started.  I probably just didn't notice it until this router screw-up
happened.  And I don't even want to think about why my home router suddenly
changed behavior :(