SSL session ID & IPS

Posted on by David Vassallo

Intermittent access issues to HTTPS sites… Issue : Randomly, the same HTTPS site would sometimes not respond. IE would show its very unhelpful “page cannot be displayed” while firefox displays the slightly more descriptive “peer recieved a valid certificate but access denied” Cause (in this case) : An upstream Fortigate IPS was dropping “unknown” SSL … Continue reading SSL session ID & IPS

Redirecting HTTPS sites using ProxySG

Posted on by David Vassallo

Some customers often ask when using a proxy, if it’s possible to redirect one HTTPS site to another. IE will not accept a non-2xx code in response to an HTTPS. Officially, there is nothing more to it, it’s not possible… I have a workaround/hack for this. Please be aware that I provide this to you … Continue reading Redirecting HTTPS sites using ProxySG