I have had some problems over the last month or so connecting to various HTTPS websites in Firefox - today I took the time to try and debug it and found the cause to be newer versions of OpenSSL. Opera was working fine - I guess because it statically links statically against OpenSSL shipped by them? Anyway, after masking OpenSSL 0.9.8k* and going back to 'j', then re-emerging dev-libs/nss, the problem was resolved. Interestingly the test URL works with 0.9.8k if you resolve it to an IP address first and visit https://66.43.31.58/ (and add a Firefox certificate exception). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure you are on openssl-0.9.8k-r1 and re-emerge dev-libs/nss (v3.12.3-r1 here) 2. Visit https://pointofsale.ancestry.com/ in Firefox Actual Results: The page will never load and Firefox will display a 'connection was reset' error Expected Results: The page should show a "Directory Listing Denied" page.
I am unable to reproduce this now :-/
That is, I can't reproduce the fix. This website still doesnt' work from gentoo but it is working for me from Windows XP - and still works when using the IP and certificate exception.
