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Google search problem
« on: January 14, 2020, 12:59:35 am »
I'm hoping to get some help figuring out a problem I have with Google search.

If I search for the term "OS/2 Consulting", the Blonde Guy consulting page comes up as item number one. If I click on it in Firefox (SUa2) for OS/2, nothing happens. If I click on it in Safari for iPhone, the page comes up as expected.

What is going on?
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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2020, 01:45:45 am »
HA!

Weird, but same behaviour here...not sure why, other than the fact that on FF45.9 there doesn't actually appear to be a Page Source present...almost like : there is no page there! Ughhh????

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2020, 01:58:22 am »
I get the same behaviour with SeaMonkey and DuckDuckGo (default in SM) accept it is the about page and the same behaviour if I manually enter https://www.blondeguy.com/.
I usually see this behaviour when the TLS/SSL type is unsupported by our NSS.
I'll test with a newer build that is linked against the NSS DLLs in netlabs-exp

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2020, 02:14:53 am »
Same results with the newer version linked against NSS 3.47 though I didn't reboot to get the updated certs, just used BEGINLIBPATH.
Seems to use TLS1.2 which should work, did you try loading it since the 4th when you updated the certificate? Where are you hosting, on your own machine?

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2020, 03:48:16 am »
It's a website hosted by cruzio. They let me control it using plesk, but I'm having trouble configuring secure http, apparently.

OK, I tried with Qupzilla. It works fine to search from google or from duck duck go.
« Last Edit: January 14, 2020, 03:52:24 am by Neil Waldhauer »
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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2020, 05:21:38 am »
Hmm, if the old Qupzilla works, it might not be HTTPS, in which case I have no idea. Qupzilla here won't even load ddg even after installing the SSL fix.

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2020, 03:52:19 pm »
If you don't want tracked and hassled don't use google use Duck Duck Go.

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2020, 04:48:11 pm »
Hi

It does not look to me that is a Google issue.
I can not access https://blondeguy.com/about.html (directly) from Firefox 45.9.0 (and Firefox 38). Can you confirm that ?
I tried https and http and it does not work.

From Windows I can access it. ...by the way, good picture Neil  ;D

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2020, 06:22:03 pm »
Hi Neil

Using Seamonkey 2.42.9esr I cannot access https://blondeguy.com at all but http://blondeguy.com seems to be working if "News: Dec 24, 2019:" is current. Other http: pages seem to work - quite enjoyed the blonde joke  ;-)


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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2020, 10:37:38 pm »
No problem, works with FF31.8.0.

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2020, 02:11:25 am »
I was fooling with the server settings. There was a window where http://www.blondeguy.com was visible. It's gone now, and none of the website will show in Firefox 45 SUa2. I can verify that Firefox 31 has no problems accessing https:/www.blondeguy.com, even correctly identifying my certificate.
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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2020, 03:31:11 am »
Does http://www.blondeguy.com/ now redirect to https://www.blondeguy.com/?
This is even weirder if FF31ESR works as it uses an older version of NSS. Unluckily I'm at a loss on how to troubleshoot this as it is like the browser gives up really early. It's a shame we don't have a functioning debug version of 45ESR.

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2020, 05:49:36 am »
Yes. That's what I changed today.

It works in our Firefox 31ESR, but not in Firefox 45 SUa2. It also works in iPhone Safari and iPad Firefox. I've set up the redirect in plesk, which has the server send a 301 message with the redirect. I still have many corrections to make to the website, but I'd like to figure out this security problem if I can.

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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2020, 03:49:04 pm »
My solution is to leave some pointers to the http://www.blondeguy.com/ website for OS/2 users to use with Firefox 45 and 38 for OS/2. Other versions and plaforms work fine and can use the secure website https://www.blondeguy.com

I do not know what is different about my website compared to others that do work.
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Re: Google search problem
« Reply #14 on: January 25, 2020, 09:09:04 pm »
I tried a website called SSL Server Test to test my website, and I can now see that several browsers will have problems. Here is the test page:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.blondeguy.com
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