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Works fine in Firefox 70.0.1.

My firewall/proxy also refuses the connection.

This site is a very good example of how not to do it: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.microwave... You've got SSLv3, RC4 and even SSLv2.

Have you intentionally disabled TLS 1.0?

Most major browsers, including Firefox, intend to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 early next year. It's possible that LukaD is using a developer release which is previewing this change.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/15/removing-old-ve...

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/modernizing-transpor...

https://webkit.org/blog/8462/deprecation-of-legacy-tls-1-0-a...

Yes, that was one path on the diagnostic flowchart that the sadly-absent answer would have progressed.

The other path is for certain users who have shut off various TLS options after encountering a “security” guide. Those users also often end up with TLS 1.3 disabled, because those security guides are rarely competent.