04/13/2018

BigIP: Silly Reason for Connection error: ssl_hs_rxhello:7295: unsupported version (70)

Quick note here to always check your Source Address Translation setting on your virtual server since you can log a Connection error: ssl_hs_rxhello:7295: unsupported version (70) in curl when connecting to a VIP and spend quite a bit of time thinking that it's ssl related when it really isn't. 

You may also see: SSLRead() return error -9806 in curl.

 

01/23/2017

Question: Why IE11 Isn't Rendering Content as Expected?

I've been running into rendering issues with IE11 lately where html pages are not getting rendered as expected even though they show up fine in chrome, firefox, and safari. I'm still digging into this but it seems like it could be due to Internet Explorer being put into Enterprise Mode for "internal" web sites, (where "internal" means any web site matching the domain name of the organization--for example, *.somedomain.com). Has any one else come across this?

Enterprise Mode defaults to sending an IE8 user agent instead of an IE11 user agent and the meta tag that developers are encouraged to place in their html (<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">) is designed to tell the browser to use the best rendering mode of the browser. If IE11 sends an IE8 user agent because Enterprise Mode is enabled, does it then get rendered as IE8 even though the HTML could be standards compliant and rendered with IE11's standards compliant engine? 

10/02/2016

CryptoNark 0.5.7 Released

Well, after an almost two year hiatus away from this blog, it's time for me to start posting stuff again. To kick things off, here is an update to cryptonark that fixes an issue with ssl certificate validation. You can grab it from the Downloads page and the changelog is available on the main CryptoNark page.

Thanks to Olivier Mengué for pointing this issue out.