Bug#421802: apache2: ssl.conf dropped IE workarounds

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Sunday 22 July 2007, Chris Withers wrote:
> > The problem is that the IE workaround needs to be in the ssl
> > virtualhost context (see #289868), but ssl.conf is global server
> > context. Therefore, you have to add the workaround to your ssl
> > virtualhost file.
> >
> > When an example ssl virtualhost is added, the IE workaround
> > should be included there.
>
> That's not been my experience at all. Simply re-instating the
> section in its location in httpd.conf solved the problems I was
> experiencing.

Yes it does. But it causes a different problem, namely that keep-alive 
is disabled for non-https connections as well, which is not necessary 
with MSIE.

Stefan