Telstra - still the (worst) one
Yesterday I wrapped up the latest of what turned out to be Telstra's further attempts to generate hate mail from its own customers.For my own business, I run payments via SSL secured tunnel to a payment gateway provider (quite common for EFTPOS but also unknown by quite a few people for some reason). In early December payments stopped going through.
Spent quite a few hours on the phone with the support team at the payment gateway company - paycorp.com.au - really good company that have been around for years. Really know there stuff technically and provide great service all round. "Unable to establish SSL" errors were being recieved, after a successful connection to the host.
I noticed after I left site again and came home, that I could process payments from my development machine (laptop). I then went on holiday with a view to having a bash next year.
The end result of all this was that it occured to me that Telstra may have started blocking SSL traffic on non web-standard ports. So I tunnelled this traffic over SSH to a host outside the network (as I was already doing to send email given that I could never get Telstra's to work anyway and they also block that) and suddenly all was well with the world again.
Only a couple more months and I can ditch them at work - and I will be happy again. Going without the worst ISP ever(tm) always makes me happy. I suggest you try this too, for your own sanity. I posted this online just in case somebody else has similar hassles.
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