SSL over IPv6 broken in Firefox for Windows...

[Voll, Toivo]

I just tried to replicate this, but it works for me. Mozilla reverts by default to IPv4, perhaps due to the certificate being wrong, but when forced https://www.ipv6.sixxs.net/main/, https://[2001:838:1:1:210:dcff:fe20:7c7c]/ it works just fine. Bottom of the page confirms: "SSL IPv6 connection from 2620:0:c30:13e8:28e6:d5cf:22a6:5ec6"

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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Toivo Voll
Network Administrator
Information Technology Communications
University of South Florida


-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-ops-bounces+toivo=usf.edu at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-ops-bounces+toivo=usf.edu at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Alexander Mayrhofer
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:43 AM
To: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
Subject: SSL over IPv6 broken in Firefox for Windows...

Hello,

A colleague of mine has recently found out that the popular Firefox web
browser fails on https-URLs over IPv6, but only on Windows (Linux works
fine). The only way to get https sites working is to disable IPv6 in the
browser - not very useful for fostering IPv6 deployment. The full bug
report is here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513659

I think this is a major issues - however, i do understand that the focus
of the Mozilla developers is not necessarily on IPv6 yet. However, feel
free to vote for the bug if you think that it deserves more attention ;)

Thanks,

Alex