edit-Domino site on https fails to open in IE8 and IE9

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Subject: edit-Domino site on https fails to open in IE8 and IE9

Feedback Type: Problem

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Administration

Platform: Windows

Release: 8.5.3

Reproducible: Always

We run a small https site for a few of our customers. Due to the size of the site, we've opted to self certify rather than user an 'official' ssl cert. The users get the 'danger danger' page that tells them there's a problem with the site's certificate, they do the 'OK' thing and all is good.

I took a complaint from one of our customers today that the site was down. Looking into the problem revealed that if they hit the site with IE9, they got a 'site not found' error. I just tried it from home and got, instead, the 'bad cert' page. When I click the 'continue to website' link, nothing happens.

If we hit the site with other browsers (IE7 or Firefox), there are no problems logging in.

I tried lowering the security settings to 'low' but no joy.

Any idea what's going on and if I can fix it without going full up on the cert?

Thanks for the assist.

<edit>
I hit the site with IE9 and got the security warning.
My customer tried it with IE8 and got 'Internet Exploer cannot display the webpage' so it looks like a connection problem.
Awesome!

Feedback number WEBB8YYV4Q created by ~Martha Lopjipyskioden on 10/11/2012

Status: Closed
Comments: This works great!

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