"Peer not authenticated" with RDS configuration using SSL

Bill, this is new info for me. When we left things last week, you were connecting via RDS over SSL. But I don’t recall noticing if you had tried to either upload or download a file once we confirmed the connection.

So you’re saying you can pull files down but not push them back up? That really surprises me. RDS does not have any sort of great distinction between those operations, that I know of, so I can’t see it being an RDS problem. And I’ve never heard it to be any sort of generic CFB problem. Finally, I don’t know of anything about SSL support in a web server that would affect downloads differently than uploads.

Just to rule SSL out, you could change CFB to using a non-SSL connection. Any difference? And I assume you are confirming that the file in question can upload just fine using your HomeSite+/RDS connection, right, which is why you think it’s CFB?

I’ll add that if perhaps this IS a file that also can’t upload in HS+, then the problem may be due to a limiter in your IIS 6 setup (or something like the free URLScan tool, often used with IIS 6 for injection protection) which may be limiting the size of files that can be posted to the server.

CF also has a limit for file size uploads (in the CF Admin Settings page), but I don’t recall if that limit applies to RDS-based file uploads. It could. Again, if you would say HS+ can upload the same file to the same server, then clearly it’s not a CF issue.

But let us know more. Again, I’ve never heard of the problem. Also, check your IIS and CF logs just to see if possibly either has info on the rejection you’re experiencing.

/charlie

Well, let’s clarify first that the RDS config test and the server view are quite different. The latter does NOT rely on RDS (there are facets of the configuration of a server there which DO rely on RDS, but not that “start/stop” status). As for why it remains stuck showing the “starting” status, I don’t readily know, but guess the question would be first “does the server run or not?”, and seconddo you need to be concerned about this status?

So back to the RDS test, this error suggests you are connecting to the server via SSL. Can you confirm that? And when you say that the HomeSite+ setup is identical, are you saying it uses HTTP in its url also?

And when you say these are both connecting to the “same server”, is the URL you’re using also otherwise identical? For instance, you could connect to “the same server” but use 2 different domain names, connecting to the one web server but in different ways. Finally, are you in fact making the connection to CF through a web server (IIS or Apache) or directly using CF’s built-in web server (such as if using port 8500 or the like in your URL)?

As for doing a remote session, we could, sure, but not for free. If I offered that sort of help here, I’d be overwhelmed. But if you mean as per my consulting (see the consulting page at carehart.org), then sure. I just got out of a meeting so have time now, if you do. Otherwise contact me off-list using the contact info offered on that page. Looking forward to seeing your problem solved. As you can see, my questions are striving to help you here on the forums for free, but if you’re pressed for time, it’s true that sometimes there’s no quicker solution than to have such a remote screen-sharing session.

/charlie