SSL Error: alert internal error

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/30/13 12:31 PM, "Christopher Peters" <cjpeters at uci.edu> wrote:

>and found that I had set clientAuth = "true" instead of "want".  I looked
>up what that does and apparently it requires a valid cert by supplied
>before a transaction can be established.  I turned this to want and now
>it works just fine.

Ah, good point. Didn't think of that.

>To my way of thinking, this means the "alert bad certificate" error isn't
>saying the cert the server is giving out is bad, but the one it's
>receiving is bad (or non-existent).  I don't know if that's correct, but
>I do know this new setting is working out and if someone with expertise
>cares to give a little more explanation on why I would love to hear it.

I think you're correct.

>Otherwise, I can just move forward now.  I think this is fixed :)

I don't think that's causing your other problems, just explains what we
saw.

-- Scott