Setting up secure connection... forever
Frank J. Perricone
able to open *any* secure connection (https) sites. It shows "Setting up
secure connection" in the status bar, and hangs on "Document: 0 MB" or
maybe as much as 1% indefinitely. While this is happening, other tabs on
non-secure sites continue to work fine.
This happens on any secure site I try, including PayPal, my bank, my ISP's
front page for checking mail and bandwidth, even My eBay and my blog site.
Other sites work fine. I made no changes I'm aware of, installed no new
software, didn't touch preferences.
Secure sites still work just fine in Firefox on the same computer.
I tried downloading and running the installer and choosing Repair, but it
didn't help. A reboot didn't help either.
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reverence in what we can see, than to imagine they only exist in what we
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Jens Schuessler
> Starting some time yesterday, my Opera (9.64 on Windows XP) stopped being
> able to open *any* secure connection (https) sites. It shows "Setting up
> secure connection" in the status bar, and hangs on "Document: 0 MB" or
> maybe as much as 1% indefinitely. While this is happening, other tabs on
> non-secure sites continue to work fine.
>
> This happens on any secure site I try, including PayPal, my bank, my ISP's
> front page for checking mail and bandwidth, even My eBay and my blog site.
> Other sites work fine. I made no changes I'm aware of, installed no new
> software, didn't touch preferences.
Sounds a little bit like my problem here
http://groups.google.com/group/opera.linux/browse_thread/thread/d9b11334c2863fe8/adcea8b48fb12a4c
Frank J. Perricone
Except that my problem affects *all* secure sites uniformly. My searches
online for people with similar problems turned up dozens of cases of "this
site won't load" but no cases of "all secure sites won't load".
Incidentally, I forgot to mention that this problem also happens on two
different ISPs.
Jens Schuessler
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 17:13:19 +0200, Jens Schuessler <j...@trash.net> wrote:
>
>> * Frank J Perricone <hawt...@foobox.com> [18-05-09 14:33]:
>> > Starting some time yesterday, my Opera (9.64 on Windows XP) stopped being
>> > able to open *any* secure connection (https) sites. It shows "Setting up
>> > secure connection" in the status bar, and hangs on "Document: 0 MB" or
>> > maybe as much as 1% indefinitely. While this is happening, other tabs on
>> > non-secure sites continue to work fine.
>> >
>> > This happens on any secure site I try, including PayPal, my bank, my ISP's
>> > front page for checking mail and bandwidth, even My eBay and my blog site.
>> > Other sites work fine. I made no changes I'm aware of, installed no new
>> > software, didn't touch preferences.
>>
>> Sounds a little bit like my problem here
>> http://groups.google.com/group/opera.linux/browse_thread/thread/d9b11334c2863fe8/adcea8b48fb12a4c
>
> Except that my problem affects *all* secure sites uniformly. My searches
> online for people with similar problems turned up dozens of cases of "this
> site won't load" but no cases of "all secure sites won't load".
>
> Incidentally, I forgot to mention that this problem also happens on two
> different ISPs.
This is extraordinary, if it affects all sites..
Could you reach https-sites with another browser or is this an Opera
problem only?
Frank J. Perricone
> This is extraordinary, if it affects all sites..
> Could you reach https-sites with another browser or is this an Opera
> problem only?
Firefox loads them fine, as I wrote. Didn't bother to try IE, I assume one
browser working covers the idea of a problem that's not in the browser.
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Naruki Bigglesworth
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 20:09:57 +0200, Jens Schuessler <j...@trash.net> wrote:
>
>> This is extraordinary, if it affects all sites..
>> Could you reach https-sites with another browser or is this an Opera
>> problem only?
>
> Firefox loads them fine, as I wrote. Didn't bother to try IE, I assume one
> browser working covers the idea of a problem that's not in the browser.
May not be a safe assumption. At least try IE, in case Opera is obeying any
OS-specific Internet settings.
Also, turn off your firewall for a second and test Opera then. Then put
your firewall back on, of course.
Jens Schuessler
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 20:09:57 +0200, Jens Schuessler <j...@trash.net> wrote:
>
>> This is extraordinary, if it affects all sites..
>> Could you reach https-sites with another browser or is this an Opera
>> problem only?
>
> Firefox loads them fine, as I wrote. Didn't bother to try IE, I assume one
> browser working covers the idea of a problem that's not in the browser.
Ah, sorry, it was in your first post. I only looked at the quoted part..;-)
Frank J. Perricone
<Nar...@nothankyou.com> wrote:
> May not be a safe assumption. At least try IE, in case Opera is obeying any
> OS-specific Internet settings.
Fair enough. IE also has no trouble with secure sites, only Opera hangs on
all of them.
> Also, turn off your firewall for a second and test Opera then. Then put
> your firewall back on, of course.
I have no software firewall on this PC; it is always behind hardware
firewalls, and as noted, the problem follows this Opera installation
regardless of what ISP it's on.
I suppose this is what's going to make me give up on Opera and move to
Firefox. Pretty disappointing something as major as this can happen and
there's no reports of anyone else having it happen.
Frank J. Perricone
Farewell, Opera. Sorry to see you go after so many years, but I don't have
time to figure this out without any help right now, nor to endure Opera
being unusable for every site with a secure component.
Jeff Layman
> This has proven to be the final straw to make me make the move to Firefox.
> Farewell, Opera. Sorry to see you go after so many years, but I don't
> have time to figure this out without any help right now, nor to endure
> Opera being unusable for every site with a secure component.
I had a somewhat similar problem with IE7, but it only affected some https
sites. Of course, Opera loaded those without problem! In the end the only
thing which solved this issue was to do a default reset of IE7. Just
wondered if it was possible to do something similar with Opera.
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Regards,
Jeff
Lee Harvey
Of course: simply do a clean install of Opera into a different folder. I
run with multiple versions of Opera installed all the time -- something you
cannot do reliably with IE.
invinciblegod
I had the exact same problem but i fixed it completely. Here is what
you do:
DELETE THIS FILE
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\Application Data\Opera\Opera
\profile\opcacrt6.dat
THIS IS THE MAIN CULPRIT. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.
DELETE
opcacrt6.dat
DELETE
There problem is solved. It took me a while to find this out. I had to
delete files one by one until my browser worked. Then I restored all
the files from a backup and deleted only the last file. It worked
perfectly. I hope everyone including OPERA fixes this.