I tried to connect to the www address and it informed me that the certificate was only valid without the www. So I tried it without the www and got the same error you got. To get a little more insight into what was happening, I tried to connect through a proxy. The proxy told me the GSA site was asking for a client certificate in order for me to connect. Does that ring a bell?

Yes, and I will attempt that and if it works or not I will inform. I will not be able to work on it until later in the afternoon.

Thanks,

This is the message that showns and this is as far as I can go. I do have a certificate, but have never used it until noe and now I cannot because of this problem. See below the message.

Secure Connection Failed

         An error occurred during a connection to www.eoffer.gsa.gov.

SSL peer was unable to negotiate an acceptable set of security parameters.

(Error code: ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert)

       I do have a certificate for this site, but this is as far as I can go, this is the error messgae:  See below
       

 The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
 Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.