You work for a small city IT department and receive a compla

You work for a small city IT department and receive a complaint from a new hire saying he is unable to use Internet Explorer 8 on his Windows Vista computer to connect to a secure site using HTTPS. He is able to connect to all HTTP protocol sites. You check and verify that this is the first time he’s tried to connect to an HTTPS site since being hired last week. You use another computer in the same office and are able to connect to the HTTPS site the customer needs to access. What do you suspect?

A. The corporate firewall is blocking HTTPS connections.

B. Internet Explorer on the customer’s computer needs to have its proxy settings changed.

C. The proxy settings on the customer’s Windows Vista computer need to be changed in Administrative Tools.

D. The HTTPS site was down when the customer tried to access it but was back up when you accessed it a few minutes later.

Solution

by reading the above scenario i understood that the corporate firewall blocks the https connections.

htttps:

hyper text markup language secure:if we access through this secure browsing will be possible.

there may be several applications and softwares available for internet proxy interception.

some selective bolckings are given bellow for u r understanding: