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On firefox 29 and 30 visitors to our site secure.actblue.com are seeing this error:
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Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to secure.actblue.com. The OCSP server found the request to be corrupted or improperly formed. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_malformed_request)
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.
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Checking with OpenSSL:
(see http://blog.ivanristic.com/2014/02/checking-ocsp-revocation-using-openssl.html)
$ openssl ocsp -issuer issuer.crt -cert secure.actblue.com-globalsign-2012.crt -url http://ocsp2.globalsign.com/gsextendvalg2 -CAfile issuer.crt
Error querying OCSP responsder
20033:error:27075072:OCSP routines:PARSE_HTTP_LINE1:server response error:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-50/src/crypto/ocsp/ocsp_ht.c:224:Code=403,Reason=Forbidden
UPDATE:
reissued cert with SHA2 to see if a different OCSP URL would be included. Yes, but still fails:
$ openssl ocsp -issuer gsextendvalsha2g2r2.crt -cert new.crt -url http://ocsp2.globalsign.com/gsextendvalsha2g2 -CAfile gsextendvalsha2g2r2.crt
Error querying OCSP responsder
20125:error:27075072:OCSP routines:PARSE_HTTP_LINE1:server response error:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-50/src/crypto/ocsp/ocsp_ht.c:224:Code=403,Reason=Forbidden
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