Re: Oracle and https

  • From: Gerry Miller <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Uzzell, Stephan" <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:53:51 +1000

Thanks Stephen. Interesting to know that someone has the same issue.  I 
am quite sure that this is not on Oracle issue as Microsoft support have 
established that the connection is being blocked by a proxy server, 
which means it is not even making a connection to the OMS.

Regards

Gerry

Uzzell, Stephan wrote:
> You know, I'm having a very similar problem. My OMS host is 2008r2. From my 
> 2003r2 servers (all of our DB servers, currently) I get Internet Explorer 
> cannot display the webpage when I try to reach the OMS. From several 2008r2 
> servers I am able to reach the webpage (I get the same security certificate 
> error). I also can't reach it from my windows 7 laptop.
>
> I don't know at this point if this is an Oracle thing, a windows 2008 thing...
>
> Stephan Uzzell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Gerry Miller
> Sent: Monday, 06 August, 2012 06:35
> To: Niall Litchfield
> Cc: Taylor, Chris David; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Oracle and https
>
>  Hi Niall
> Thanks for that.  I will inform the infrastructure team.  They asked for 
> thatinformation but I was forwarded an email from Microsoft support, who 
> haveobviously traced the route, and the problem is with the proxy server.
>
> Regards
>
> Gerry
>
> Niall Litchfield wrote: The information they are asking for can be obtained 
> by connecting to the site and inspecting the properties of the page (both 
> I.Eand Chrome do this). For what it's worth em12c uses 128bit SSL. The 
> encryption methods are also available to them if they are that interested. I 
> expect the cert error is just the usual untrusted warning you get for 
> self-signed certs.  
> Which certificate it is shouldn't have any bearing on what route the network 
> chooses for packets between hosts though. You ought to be able to prove that 
> using traceroute or similar.  
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Gerry Miller <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[1]>
> wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> The infrastructure team have found that they have the same problem from
> a local server.   The sites that have no problem are running Windows
> 2008 R2 and get the message "There is a problem with this site's security 
> certificate", which is easily bypassed. The site with the problem is on 
> Windows Server 2003 R2 and get no such message, so the infrastructure team 
> have asked me to confirm that "..the SSL configuration and CypherSuite 
> configured for Weblogic will support the IE cipher strength of 128-bit".  I 
> have no idea what that means so will have to chase it up.
>
> The server that I am trying to connect from is in the Middle East, while the 
> OMS site is in Australia.  I was informed last week that the connection was 
> being blocked at another site they have in South America,  which I would 
> think would make the above issue of the certificate irrelevant.  It does make 
> the multiple NIC theory sound feasible to me.
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Gerry
>
>
>   

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