I got this: ssl_error_handshake_unexpected_alert Using Firefox on a Macbook Air. How do I fix this? Authenticity verification problem.?

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I got this: ssl_error_handshake_unexpected_alert
Using Firefox on a Macbook Air. How do I fix this? Authenticity verification problem.?

Answer 1

Mozilla's website notes that the error indicates "ssl peer was not expecting a handshake it received". In this case you were attempting to connect to a site, and your browser initiated an ssl connection. A few reasons this could have happened:

1. you tried to connect to an http url, but wrote https explicitly (and the site accepted it)

2. you previously accessed the same url over https, and firefox supplied that from your history when you tried to go to the http version

3. the webserver doesn't have ssl properly configured.

4. you have a stored preference in your Keychain to supply an authentication certificat for that website.



Without the url you tried to access, it's hard to say.



https://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/python-nss/doc/api/current/html/nss.error-module.html

Answer 2

You were on a https: website that threw a curveball for some reason.

Answer 3

I got this too, but none of the above answers applied to me. IT does this on and off but i never figured out why.

Answer 4

Well because yahoo sucks. Instead of hiring qualified IT people, they go cheap. Then, guess what?