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This is an error I’ve never run into before…

We were at the Aces High RV Park in East Lyme, CT. I tried to login into the WiFi system there and my browser hung up as it tried to log me into my account.

I finally figured out it was a problem with the version of SSL my browser was using.

SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer, and it is the process by which a web browser creates a secure connection between itself and a web site.

The current version of SSL is 3.0, but some sites still use SSL version 2.0. The problem is in the latest versions of FireFox (2.0) and Internet Explorer (7.0), SSL 2.0 is shut off by default.

So to get these browsers to work correctly, you have to turn SSL 2.0 on. Here is how:

Turning on SSL 2.0 in Firefox 2.0

Turning on SSL 2.0 in Internet Explorer 7.0

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