latest Firefox fails on https

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke, who wrote on Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:36:37PM -0500 ..
> 
> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 22:02 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > In the hope I will not make a fool out of myself with this question:
> > 
> > I just brought my laptop to the very latest 8-CURRENT.  Worked without a
> > hitch.
> > 
> > As a side project I decided to also bring all ports up to date to the
> > latest.
> > 
> > One of the ports is Firefox.
> > 
> > Which now gives me the following error message on every https: URL that I
> > try:
> > 
> > 	Unexpected response from server
> > 	Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server.
> > 
> > 	    *   Check to make sure your system has the Personal Security Manager
> > 		  installed.
> > 	    *   This might be due to a non-standard configuration on the server.
> > 
> > I now have built from ports:
> > 	firefox-2.0.0.11,1  Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> > 	nss-3.11.7          Libraries to support development of security-enabled applic
> > 
> > A somewhat earlier Firefox 2.0.0.x (whatever the prebuilt packages server
> > currently carries) I fetched via pkg_add -r gave me the same error message.
> > 
> > Firefox works just fine with normal http servers.
> > 
> > Google gives me lots of "me too" and assorted Linux crud but nothing
> > relevant to FreeBSD unfortunately.
> 
> Rebuild devel/nspr, security/nss, then www/firefox, and you should be
> fine.

Took a while (P3 1.2GHz laptop) but it does not work, same problem still.
I see firefox has a dependency on security/nss in its Makefile, the
devel/nspr I do not see listed?

What makes me suspicious is that the precompiled 8-current package exhibited
the same problem.

Wilko

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org