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Fatal errors on secure sites
These are messages about conditions that are directly fatal for
the connection, and the connection will be shut down immediately,
and the message is used to inform you about the cause of the
failure.
Warnings may be sent by Opera, or by the server; the title of
the window says which end sent the warning. Generally, a warning
from the server indicates a problem caused by Opera, and vice
versa.
The following fatal errors can be issued:
- Handshake Failure
- Some problem caused the (re)negotiation of
the connection to fail. This may happen because you and the
server could not find, common (enabled) encryption method or, less
likely, by outside tampering with the data. Other reasons also
exist.
- Transmission Failure
- Some problem occured during ordinary
communication. This may happen because of illegal data or, less
likely, by outside tampering with the data. Other reasons also
exists.
- Bad Certificate
- The certificate could not be verified
properly, this may be caused by a faulty signature on one of the
certificates.
- Access denied
- The certificate was valid but you have specified
that certifcates signed by one of the signers in the chain is not
to be trusted.
- Invalid Certificate Chain
- The certificates in the chain of a
received Server Certificate, or a certificate
that is to be installed was not ordered properly.
- Internal Error
- Some local problem caused the connection to
fail. One possible reason is out of memory conditions.
- No Cipher Selected
- You have not selected any encryption
methods.
- Security Disabled
- You have disabled security.
- No Cipher
- You had not enabled any of the SSL version 2
encryption methods acceptable to the server. This message will only
appear for SSL version 2, SSL version 3 gives a handshake failure
message.
You may also receive messages about not having enabled SSL
version 2 when connection to a server using only version 2, and you
have not enabled it.
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