[OPLINTECH] Calling all Gurus

[Chad Neeper]

Oblivious me. I missed the URL in Mindy's OP.

Telnet to port 80 is not a valid test for the https link. The https server
is running on port 443. Further, a simple telnet to port 443 won't work.
However, you can use OpenSSL to test the SSL web server on 443.

Here's a link describing the procedure.
http://www.bearfruit.org/2008/04/17/telnet-for-testing-ssl-https-websites/

If you don't have a linux machine handy or aren't familiar with linux,
there could be a way to do it in Windows, but here's an easy way to add
another tool to your toolbox:

1) Download and burn a knoppix linux boot image to a CD/DVD. (Explore. You
may come to regard this as a useful tool for partitioning hard drives
and/or accessing/recovering files on an NTFS (Windows) partition without
needing to boot Windows.)
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

2) Boot to knoppix on any old computer. It won't affect the Windows OS
installed there (unless you deliberately open the file manager and start
poking around in the Windows partitions on the hard drive.)

3) Open gedit ("Start menu" -> Accessories -> gedit

4) In gedit, type the following (exactly...case sensitive) and copy it to
the clipboard (ie. copy/paste). You'll probably notice this is part of
Mindy's problem URL:
GET
/CreateLabel.aspx?MRSID=313600&DisplayType=Customer&ShippingInfoIncluded=No

5) Now open a terminal session (ie. command prompt, DOS prompt, console
prompt, etc.):
"Start menu" -> Accessories -> LXTerminal

6) To establish your https session, type:
openssl s_client -connect returns.usps.com:443    <hit enter>

7) In 6), you should have seen the server's response and SSL/cert
information. After that displays, paste the GET request you copied to the
clipboard and hit <enter> twice. You should see the website data coming
through (many lines of code).





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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Michael Vollmar-Grone <vollmami at oplin.org>
wrote:

>  Had a similar issue recently with not being able to print either a FedEx
> or UPS return label.
> No solution found here, just adding to the problem.
> mike
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Mindy Holmes <holmesme at oplin.org> wrote:
>  I am experiencing a unique problem.  There is a particular website that
> won't load within our library (I will list the URL below).  It is a link to
> the USPS to print a return label for Alibris.  The link does not work on
> any PC in our network.  Here is what I have tried:
>
>
>    - Mulitiple Browsers
>    - Multiple Browser with not add-ons
>    - Temporarily disabling antivirus software
>    - Watching the traffic pass through the firewall - no blocks
>    - Plugging a laptop that the linked worked on from home directly into
>    our OPLIN router
>    - Pinging the IP address for the site
>    - Telnet to the site on port 80 and running - GET / HTTP/1.1 host:
>    returns.usps.com  (which does respond as it should)
>
>
> The link still will not load.  It just endlessly cycles and eventually
> times out.   I am sure there is a needle in the haystack I have missed.
> Any thoughts on what this could be are greatly appreciated.  Here is the
> ornery URL:
>
>
> https://returns.usps.com/CreateLabel.aspx?MRSID=313600&DisplayType=Customer&ShippingInfoIncluded=No
>
> Mindy Holmes
> Mason Public Library
>
>
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>
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> Director of Technical Services
> Shelby County Libraries
> 230 East North Street
> Sidney, OH 45365(937) 492-6851 x.119http://shelbyco.lib.oh.us/http://www.facebook.com/ShelbyCountyLibrariesvollmami@oplin.org
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