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   From: VanguardLH    
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   Subject: Re: Unable to connect to GitHub in Windows XP Pro SP3's IE8 web   
   browser?   
   Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 23:45:07 -0600   
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   Ant wrote on 2016/01/06:   
      
      
   > VanguardLH wrote:   
   >   
   >> IE9 was the highest version   
   >> you could install in Windows XP.  So you should update from IE8 to IE9.   
   >    
   > Uh, IE9 didn't work on Windows XP.   
      
   My bad.  I thought IE9 could be installed on Windows XP.  According to:   
      
   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/system-requi   
   rements   
      
   Nope, IE9 won't install (if that's what you mean by "didn't work) on   
   Windows XP according to Microsoft.   
      
   > But there is no IE9 for Windows XP.   
      
   Yep, so you won't have the TLS protocols in your web browser that are   
   required by that site (and many others that dropped SSL and switched to   
   TLS).  So you are stuck with a decision: get blocked by sites that   
   require safer connects via HTTPS or, as mentioned, "Switch to a better   
   web browser that supports TLS and other security methods when connecting   
   to web sites; e.g., Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome (or their   
   variants)."   
      
   A few years ago, many sites refused to let IE6 users connect.  Not a   
   secure web browser and long unsupported.  Then it was IE8.  Since you   
   cannot get IE9 on Windows XP, you have to use some other web browser on   
   Windows XP.   
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