can't establish a secure connection to the server

[danaleigh]

greetings,

my powerbook has started refusing to access a number of websites, instead displaying the message: safari can't open the page "..." because it couldn't establish a secure connection to the server "...".

any ideas? thanks! dana

[Fleetwood Mac]

Which websites? You can try clicking on the Safari menu (when launched), and then on Reset Safari. It could also be something wrong with the website.

[danaleigh]

no...the websites work--a bank, yahoo mail, etc. i can access them fine from my iMac.

[Fleetwood Mac]

Did you try to Safari Reset? Also, in Safari > Preferences > Security check to make sure accept cookies isn't set to never. If that both of those fail you could try creating a new account and seeing if the pages load in there.

[EgOiStE]

I had this problem as well. Adding new root authority certificates from Thawte fixed the problem. Apple has documentation on how to do this here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2046.html

I added the root and server certificates that I downloaded from here
http://www.thawte.com/roots

[Simplisticly]

I can't even access any of the links below... same problem "Safari cannot establish a secure connection"

[JediMeister]

@Simplisticly: Is your computer's date and time set correctly? What version of Mac OS X and Safari do you have?

[APlasticFork]

(P)arental (C)ontrols might be your problem.
Go on PC and click on COntent, then Customize.
Keep This window Open.


Now go on the website that safari cant securre a connection to, and find the i.P of that website. Copy the i.p

http://www.ehow.com/how_4616198_ping-ip-address-mac.html



Finally, go back on Parental Controls paste the i.p of the website (instead of the url) and it should work.