firefox port lacks ssl support?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri Jun 29 22:17:34 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:53 -0700, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:28 -0700, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> >> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 00:33 -0700, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> >>>> I recently updated my world and neither firefox or seamonkey support
> >>>> https.  Is this a known problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> firefox-2.0.0.4,1   Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> >>>> seamonkey-1.1.2     The open source, standards compliant web browser
> >>>>
> >>>> Those are my ports versions.
> >>>
> >>> Rebuild devel/nspr and security/nss, then rebuild Firefox.
> >>
> >> Thanks, should this go in the ports UPDATING?
> >
> > We typically require people to use portupgrade, and keep their whole
> > ports tree up-to-date.
> 
> I actually did that.  Kris helped me with update with Xorg and I forced 
> all new packages using portupgrade.

Then you shouldn't of seen this problem.  There is really no magic to
the Firefox/nss integration (i.e. no special UPDATING steps are needed
to get the two to work together).  As long as both are kept up-to-date,
HTTPS support should just work.

Joe

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