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In article <slrnnmdgun.3kl.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com>,
Geoff Gass  <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>> Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:
>>
>>> LOL.  Isn't there a single IT guy at CPD who isn't sleeping?
>>> Fat chance I ever use IE on the open Intertubes.
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, on the mac, Firefox does exactly the same thing but
>> Safari (the default mac browser) is fine.
>>
>> What it seems like is Firefox is picking up somewhere it's supposed to be
>> a secure connection (https) but isn't. And it's not.
>>
>> Only idea, but it should trip up other browsers, is if they had a cert for
>> ssl connects and quit using it. Like on webmail.ripco.com, you can just enter
>> that or with the http:// bit, but once it connects, it does a automatic
>> redirect to the secure port (https://).
>>
>> Else it's some feature of Firefox expecting ssl connections anywhere, which
>> sounds as stupid as something they would try to do. They seem to like to
>> tinker with it that way, usually backing it off later.
>
>http://portal.chicagopolice.org is redirecting to
>https://portal.chicagopolice.org, it is not firefox trying to do that.  In IE,
>I eventually get redirected to http://home.chicagopolice.org/.  I'm not sure
>what FF doesn't like about the https site, it's TLS 1.0, which is bad, but I
>don't think FF outright blocks it.  Where did Mark get the link to portal?

FWIW, IE is the official browser of the City of Chicago.  :(

Jamie

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RE: From the chicago police website nobody@nowhere.invalid (Will Renkel) - 2016-06-18 10:58 +0000
  Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-18 12:17 -0700
    Re: From the chicago police website Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-06-19 11:13 +0000
      Re: From the chicago police website Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-06-19 16:09 +0000
        Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-19 11:36 -0700
        Re: From the chicago police website jamie@ftupet.com (jamie) - 2016-06-20 00:16 +0000
          Re: From the chicago police website barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-06-20 17:52 -0500
          Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-20 23:43 +0000
            Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-20 17:25 -0700
              Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 04:42 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 10:40 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 19:45 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 13:36 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 22:36 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 16:08 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-06-22 19:03 -0500
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 17:38 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-23 06:02 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-06-23 10:49 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-23 20:44 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-06-22 19:01 -0500

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