November 18, 2008 Archives

Don't feel alone. I don't understand what that error message is saying either. I'm just plagued with it!

It's a tech problem at work. It's an incompatibility between Firefox 3.0, Google's encrypted sites (like Gmail, Adsense, Webmaster Tools, Google Docs, etc) and our Fortigate firewall. Intermittently my web requests to Google get rejected with error messages. It can take a half dozen retries before my Gmail is sent or other task completed.

It's a strange problem because it's both software related and intermittent. You expect problems like these to follow hard and fast rules. What am I doing differently the fifth time I press retry than the fourth or third or second?

There is very little about this online. I can find people with my problem. I find a smaller subset who've realized it's this specific firewall box that's the wild card. I can't find anyone with concrete tips to make the problem go away!

It wasn't this way until Firefox went from version 2 to 3. It only happens with Google's SSL encrypted sites.

It's driving me slightly nuts.