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Proxy Server 2.0 Problems w/SSL Access

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by doubleg

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I have a question that I was hoping someone might be able to shed a little light on for me.

This is a weird one:

We are using MS Proxy Server 2.0 here in our office.

Well one of our customers has this new Secure Site that requires a certain two ports to be open through the proxy. This should be something thats very easy to do by just going into Winsock Properties and enabling the ports right.... Wrong.

The thing that I dont understand is that there are only two machines here in the office that can actually access their site. Mine being one of them and then just another workstation. I cant figure out why just these two machines will work (well besides the server itself of course).

I have looked at the permissions and configuration settings on each of these machines and compared them to mine. Everything looks the same. I kind of thought that since I had admin priviledges that was one reason, but thats not the case.

Does this make any sense to anyone??

The error that im getting on the workstations is: 12204 SSL Port Specified is not allowed.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

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by mikel~t

Have you tried setting up your web browsers so that the proxy isn't used for that site?

by rcc

Here are a couple of suggestions:
Disable using Web Proxy on the clients (IExplorer/Options/Connection) and use only the Winsock Client.
Analyze the security settings and Internet Options/Advanced-Security settings between a working and a non-working machine.See what differences (SSL, PCT, Fortezza, Use HTTP 1.1 and so on)

Regards,
Radu

by mjervis

Had the same problem here not long ago. One of our customers wanted us to open ports 7143 and 7001. These ports were not normally opened for SSL. There is a Q article for this at Q184028. It requires a registry edit to work. It also requires a reboot. The sequence of events I had to follow to make this work was:

1. Add the ports to proxy server manually as an inbound port and an outbound port.

2. Follow the Q184028 article.

3. Reboot the server (hard boot) because it is a registry edit.

4. Reset the proxy client on the workstation.

5. Reboot the workstation.

Our configuration for this is NT 4.0 sp5 and Proxy Server 2.0 sp1.

Good Luck hope this helps. Email me if you need further assistance.

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