Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Barry Mathieu wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package
> that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web
> transactions?
>
> Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive 
> a message something like "connection refused".
>
> Being a newbie, I would like to stay away from installing software
> without a .deb file. I would also like to stay as strictly pure to
> the Debian release as possible.  
>
> If my existing conclusion is correct, then it appears I must use
> something like Netscape, with the appropriate .deb install pkg, for
> connecting to a secure server.
>
> Barry
IIRC (I no longer have that version so my menus are different), you can 
solve this problem by clicking within Mozilla on the Debug menu, and 
then "Install PSM" or somesuch. You may need to be running Mozilla as 
root in order to do this.

Then again, I vaguely remember that this took you to the Mozilla site 
where you can now no longer download/install the PSM piece because they 
want you to download a newer version of Mozilla. I just don't remember 
for sure.