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AOL Proxy Servers not connecting via https

  • From: mike harrison
  • Date: Thu Sep 25 14:13:38 2003 
I'm looking for a clueful person either inside of AOL's NetOps 
or someone else that can help us. 

Problem; 
   
    Using AOL Dial-Up, through AOL Browser or MSIE 
    users can connect to our web servers and our clients
    web servers via normal http with no problem. 
 
    If they connect to a secure site (https://) they 
    get 'page can not be displayed' and other errors.
    We have this issue with Linux/Apache as well as 
    MSIE servers.

    Sniffing such connections, we get one of two scenerios:

    1.  A connection is opened from an AOL proxy server 
        (172.151.135.3 for example) yet no data is transmitted.
        
    2.  A connection is opened from an AOL proxy server.
        what looks like a request is sent (580 bytes)
        and some response is sent back (5k bytes) 
        Yet the clients browser never gets a website..
        The webserver logs an 'error 408' from the request,
        Which is a request timeout. 

    2 test websites to try from AOL:
             https://www.krystal.net   MS
             https://www.onrope1.com   Linux/Apache       


     Clue Bat's welcome. Thank You --Mike--