Can you ping ip's but not domain names? That error page is the standard 404 we all see when a page wont load. Its not specific and contains no information that will be helpful. Other than letting you know somethings wrong...

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It sounds like it would be the 128-bit cipher strength missing that would cause that problem. But you said you checked that. Try this just in case - in IE, click tools, internet options, advanced. Scroll down to the area where it says security and make sure that "use SSL 2.0" and "use SSL 3.0" are checked. Good luck.

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Hey suzi, Those options are checked. But the https sites are still unaccessible.

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Here's some other ideas, and some good background info on how https/SSL works, but mostly from a developer perspective. It's stuff I found on the WEB while searching for a similar match for a problem for a friend. ...below from the web... How to Access Those Secure (https://) Web Pages Having problems accessing web pages on secure connections (URLs that begin “https://…)? Your browser may need to be upgraded to a higher level of encryption. To check if the browser you use is current with the highest encryption level possible, check the following: In Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and 5: Select Help -> About Internet Explorer from the menu. The dialogue box should read: Cipher Strength: 128-bit. If it doesn’t, then you will need to install a patch or a new version of Internet Explorer. Refer to the following page at Microsoft for information on obtaining and installing the patch: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/128bit/intro.htm Do I need load somthing to make https work? You need to install certificate on your web server to make https (SSL) work. These you can buy from verisign or generate yourself using microsoft certificate server. Verisign gives free 15 days trial certificate. first generate a request file from IIS and send it to verisign with 15 minutes you will have your certificate for testing Thanks, Al[/b][/quote] check you cookie settings verify your network settings If you are connecting to the standard SSL port, 443, you have the option of appending the port number to the URL string. However, if your Web server is using a nonstandard port for SSL traffic, you'll need to append the port number to your URL string like this: URL url = new URL("https://[your server]:7002"); Secure connections, HTTPS and SSL The secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) is a communications protocol designed to transfer encrypted information between computers over the World Wide Web. HTTPS is HTTP using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL). A secure socket layer is an encryption protocol invoked on a Web server that uses HTTPS. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) allows software to communicate with Web servers in a secure, encrypted manner. Many Web sites that conduct electronic commerce use SSL to securely transmit credit card numbers from a customer's Web browser to the Web server. All sites stored on the central Web Servers supports both the http:// and https:// protocols. If you want to take advantage of SSL, you can create secure hyperlinks in Web pages. Secure hyperlinks begin with https:// instead of the standard http:// Example: HTTPS Example Link When users will click on the link, they will transfer the document encrypted. If you are using FrontPage, you can also use https to edit your web site. This means that no one will be able to intercept and read the information you are sending back and forth between your computer and the Web server. Important Notes Web sites mapped to NICE home or divisional directories (DFS) do not support HTTPS. SSL imposes a performance hit on serving of Web content due to the additional encryption steps that must be performed. Information that does not need to be transmitted over a secure channel should be left to normal HTTP. An example of this might be any image files (GIFs, JPEGs) used on your site. In order to offer secured communications using SSL, a digital certificate from a certificate authority has been installed on the central servers. A certificate is valid for only one server name and only one certificate can be installed on a server. This means that the certificate is valid only if the site is accessed using the physical machine name (webxx.cern.ch/sitename) instead of the logical one (sitename.web.cern.ch/sitename). The redirector behind cern.ch takes care of the correct translation but this will expose the physical machine name that may change with time. In this case it is essential to use hyperlinks of the type https://cern.ch/sitename/xxxx that are guaranteed to be valid forever. Disabling normal http:// access All pages stored on the central Web servers are always accessible using both http:// and https://. This means of course that you can use https:// instead of http:// but also that your users can use http:// instead of https://, therefore using a non-secure connection where you had wanted to do so. Even if this is a non-problem as it is unlikely that users may do that, you can disable http:// on a per-page basis using a simple ASP script. To do so, you should give your document the *.asp extension and then type in, at the beginning of its body something like: "ON" Then SSLUrl = "https://www.cern.ch" + Request.ServerVariables("URL") If LCase(Right(SSLUrl, 12)) = "/default.asp" Then SSLUrl = Left(SSLUrl, Len(SSLUrl)-11) End If QS = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING") If Len(QS) > 0 Then SSLUrl = SSLUrl + "?" + QS End If Response.Redirect SSLUrl Response.End End if %> The script above uses the variable Request.ServerVariables ("HTTPS") that returns "ON" if the request came in through secure channel (SSL) or it returns OFF if the request is for a non-secure channel. Instead of denying the user access to the document, the browser is automatically redirected to the same page with https:// SSL can also be used together with X509 client certificates. This is not currently supported by the central web services because there is no client certificate infrastructure available in CERN. Note: You can also enforce the usage of SSL by changing the Directory Attributes of the web site from the CERN Web Registration site. This has the advantage that all documents in the directory tree is protected. END

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