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FYI: internet actually works in it. If you start IE in it, you get the network connection wizard, choose lan and let it auto configure, and it works. IE will go
by Aardwolf 9y ago
FYI: internet actually works in it. If you start IE in it, you get the network connection wizard, choose lan and let it auto configure, and it works. IE will go to a default msn.com page that it will be unable to actually render, but google.com works. But wikipedia over https not for some reason
- cesarb 9y agoThat's because MSIE uses an operating system component for SSL/TLS, and the version of that component on Windows 2000 has only insecure or weak ciphers, and none of them is accepted by Wikipedia's servers. According to qualys (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=IE&version=6&platform=XP&key=18 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewClient.html?name=IE&vers...), even on Windows XP it knows only insecure ciphers (small key size or the broken RC4 cipher) and weak ciphers (3DES has a small block size, which is now considered insecure).
- limeblack 9y agoIE6 and below need TLS 1.0 or http. It is the same reason stackoverflow doesn't work https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overfl...