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 > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l