latest Firefox fails on https

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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.

That sucks.

> I see firefox has a dependency on security/nss in its Makefile, the
> devel/nspr I do not see listed?

nss depends on nspr.

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

That's not good.  SSL is working fine for me, and I see no reason why it
should show as disabled.  Please provide the output of make configure
for firefox.

Joe


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