Installation guide

Known Problems and Solutions
52 iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Release Notes • June 20, 2001
Problem 387226. Session Cache Problem with Client Authentication
Note the following information regarding the magnus.conf file SSLCacheEntries directive:
• Do not set SSLCacheEntries to a value greater than 524288 if SSL client authentication is being
used. This can cause a degradation in performance. Note that the default setting is
10000.
• There is an approximate disk space requirement associated with this setting of 0.5 KB per cache
entry.
• The
SSLCacheEntries setting corresponds to the number of SSL sessions to be cached. The
number of certificates cacheable is implicitly set by NSS to 1/16th of the size of the session
cache, corresponding to a maximum of 32768 certificates in the cache.
Problem 396337 (Windows NT only). Configuration Change Windows Do Not Check for Correct
Password (when SSL is Enabled)
If SSL is enabled on the server and you change any configuration on Windows NT platforms, and
then click Save and Apply, the Web Server displays the "System error: Password did not match"
error message.
Workaround
Click the Save and then click the Apply button at the right top of the Administration Server.
Problem. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.0 Unable to Perform 128-bit Step-Up
The export releases of Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.0 do not properly request a cipher change from
40/56-bit to 128-bit encryption when they encounter a step-up certificate. Internet Explorer does
not perform the step-up and continues communicating with iPlanet Web Server using a 40/56-bit
cipher. This issue has been reported to Microsoft.
Workaround
Microsoft recommends upgrading to a 128-bit capable browser.
Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS) / LiveWire
Problem 382457 (Linux only). Web Server Crashes When Sybase Connection Fails
On Linux, if you connect to a Sybase server using LiveWire and the connection fails, the web server
crashes. The server crashes because the
LANG and LC_ALL environment variable values do not match
values in the
locales.dat file.
Workaround: Modify the
${SYBASE}/locales/locales.dat file so that it has an entry for the
locale that you want. For example, if you set
LANG=en_US or LC_ALL=en_US or both, add the
following entry to the
[linux] section in locales.dat:
locale = en_US, us_english, iso_1