HTTP/SSL (HTTPS) sites not working in IE6/IE7 - advice reque

[ostry]

Hello,

I have working IE6 and IE7 in Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.1, HTTP sites working OK, but I have problems with HTTP/SSL (HTTPS) sites. Has somebody solved this?

In *IE7*, sticking point is this screen:

"There is a problem with this website's security certificate. Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server. We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website. Click here to close this webpage. Continue to this website (not recommended). More information"

After clicking to "Continue to this website", the same screen reloades and it is cycling again and again, after each "Continue ...". I imported certificate to various tabs of Tools > Internet Options > Content > Certificates, but it had no effect on this behaviour. Also this howto http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=7314 was not helpful.

In *IE6*, sticking point is this security warning dialog:

"There is a problem with the certificate for this site. There is at least one unspecified security problem with this certificate. Do you want to continue anyway?" Yes / No

After many repeated Yes-clicks, the site loades slowly, but then whole IE crashes and is restarted. I imported certificate to various tabs of "wine control" > Internet Settings > Content > Certificates..., but it had no effect on this behaviour.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Jano Ostrochovsky

[DanKegel]

With wine-1.3.14 (well, really, wine from git), I was able to do
rm -rf ~/.wine
winetricks-alpha -q ie7
wine 'C:\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore' https://mail.google.com
and connect successfully. However,
wine 'C:\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore' https://gmail.com
fails as you describe.

Which wine are you using, how did you install ie7, and which sites
are you trying to connect to?

[DanKegel]

I filed
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26203
for the ie7 problem as I saw it.

[ostry]

Errata:

default winetricks was NOT successful

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wine/1 ... quest.html

Thanks Dan!

My version installed from .rpm for SLED is:

wine --version
wine-1.3.11

winetricks is included, but I used modified winetricks from http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn-hist ... winetricks, because default one was successful from inside our corporate network when issuing:

winetricks ie6

IE7 I installed according to slightly modified procedure: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2009/02 ... -wine.html - modified, because after default installation, there was not available VBScript menu of tested internal web application

currently I have not configured proxy and I am testing only internal web applications not accessible publicly from the internet... but I can configure proxy and test also some external sites and send more detailed information

there is also concurrent thread of thishttp://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wine/175596-h ... quest.html and one of the suggestions is to try older version of wine (1.2 instead of 1.3)

[DanKegel]

Does a fresh copy of winetricks-alpha from
http://winetricks.org/winetricks-alpha
work any better for ie6 and ie7?

[ostry]

just tried installation of IE6 and IE7 via winetricks-alpha

in both cases, installation went OK and I was then able to start IE this way:

wine 'C:\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore'

test HTTPS site in IE6: still the same behaviour, need to confirm security error dialog many times and then after prompted to install Java, IE crashes... tested also with https://gmail.com and https://mail.google.com (via proxy)

test HTTPS site in IE7: security dialog confirmed only one time, then IE freezes (new type of behaviour)... tested also with https://gmail.com and https://mail.google.com (via proxy)

[joem]

I filed
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26203
for the ie7 problem as I saw it.

Thanks for the code (if that was yours).I'm happy to say that it's okey.