environment
Novell iChain 2.3 Service Pack 4
Novell iChain 2.3 Interim Release 4a
Novell iManager 2.6 on NetWare
Novell Remote Manager
Novell NetWare 6.5 Administration Server
Apache HTTP Server 2.XX on NetWare 6.5
GroupWise WebAccess
Novell BorderManager 3.8 SSL Authentication

situation
SSL connections with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) on Microsoft Windows Vista RC2 will fail with:

• SSL enabled web services on Novell NetWare 6.5 and Novell NetWare 6.0
• Novell iChain 2.3 SSL enabled authentication pages and accelerator

SSL services on OES Linux (OpenSSL based) do not have this problem

Internet Explorer Version 7 on Windows XP does no have this problem as TLS 1.0 is not enabled as default security setting