On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:41:25 -0700 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > (BTW, I'm running firefox-bin-36.0, so the behavior may be a bit > different from the gentoo build.) > > FF will not even show me the secure att.com webpage. I get an entire > html page with this (very big) error message: > > Secure Connection Failed > > An error occurred during a connection to www.att.com. The OCSP server > experienced an internal error. (Error code: > sec_error_ocsp_server_error) > > The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the > authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Why didn't you say so? ;) Enter "about:config" in the address bar, search for "security.OCSP.require" and toggle it to false, which is the default (Mozilla's shipped default, at least). OCSP will still be checked when possible, but you shouldn't be locked out any more when it's not possible.