Ssl – Page can’t be displayed with IIS and SSL

iissslssl-certificatewindows-server-2012

I have a single site hosted in IIS 8. I have two site bindings. One is for HTTP, the other is for HTTPS. HTTP is on port 80 with All Unassigned addresses, I left host name blank. HTTPS is on port 443 bound to All Unassigned addresses, and I left the host name blank. I have tried using a self signed certificate and one that was signed by our domain's root CA.

On the server if I use IIS to navigate to the site, it works just fine. My development machine works if I browse to it with HTTP, but HTTPS failed with "This page can't be displayed." I've tried using the host name and the IP to navigate to it, same problem either way.

Any idea what may be causing this?

  • I've tried starting/stopping the site and IIS itself.
  • The "Page can't
    be displayed" message happens with IE.
  • Firefox says "The connection
    was reset".
  • Chrome gives the error code "ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED"
  • When I view the traffic from Wireshark, I see a single "Client Hello" packet going from my dev machine to the server. The server doesn't send anything in response.
  • When I run Fiddler (Which has HTTPS decryption enabled), IE is able to navigate to the site properly. Which makes me think there's something weird with the certificate.

Best Answer

Earlier this morning I had disabled my Kaspersky anti-virus due to an unrelated issue. A few minutes ago I turned Kaspersky on and then my site started working again!

I've never seen that behavior before. Almost all of the time having AV running is the problem, not the solution.

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