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Lynky

2004-12-24, 3:02 am

Hallo,

we are using SSL for our IIS5 (SSL key length 1024; Pentium 3.0GHz, 1024MB
RAM) for a short time. We only use it for a few applications. From inside our
company network the access on this sites is quite fast but from outside it
takes ages - We're talking about minutes to even show the first page!

I've finally tried to disable SSL for all directories and only set the
login-file to SSL-require. That had no effect - other pages than the
login-page seem to use SSL anyway. It takes exactly the same time than before.

What can be the reason for that and how can I solve this problem?
Merry Christmas and thanks in advance,

Lynky
Ken Schaefer

2004-12-28, 7:53 am

Who issued the certificate that is being used? Perhaps the client is
attempting to contact the CA (eg to retrieve a CRL)?

To correct the "all pages using SSL" problem you have below, you need to
code your links off the SSL secured page so that they use http:// explicitly

Cheers
Ken

"Lynky" <Lynky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0FD0F0EF-E9BA-4F8D-93C7-949F165FB305@microsoft.com...
> Hallo,
>
> we are using SSL for our IIS5 (SSL key length 1024; Pentium 3.0GHz, 1024MB
> RAM) for a short time. We only use it for a few applications. From inside
> our
> company network the access on this sites is quite fast but from outside it
> takes ages - We're talking about minutes to even show the first page!
>
> I've finally tried to disable SSL for all directories and only set the
> login-file to SSL-require. That had no effect - other pages than the
> login-page seem to use SSL anyway. It takes exactly the same time than
> before.
>
> What can be the reason for that and how can I solve this problem?
> Merry Christmas and thanks in advance,
>
> Lynky



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