Old Mac OS X ssl issues [was Re: Trac login]

[Geoff Down]

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017, at 09:51 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2017, at 4:44 PM, Geoff Down <geoffdown at fastmail.net> wrote:
> >> What Mac OS X version are you on?
> > 10.4.11 .That's also why I can't access Trac via Github.
> 
> IIRC macports uses libcurl linked against system openssl - so you're
> going to see this more and more often (as current security
> recommendations require ssl/tls configuration that doesn't work out of
> the box on pre-10.9).
 I'm in the midle of updating curl as well.
 
> I suspect it's a ssl/tls configuration (you could probably verify by
> visiting the site with Safari or with the `openssl -connect` command).

Thanks for the help, I'll remember that debug mode. FWIW I get no errors
connecting to www.eecis.udel.edu with Firefox,Wget or openssl (if I'm
interpreting 'Verify return code: 0 (ok)' correctly), but I won't
involve you with that side of it any further.
Regards,
Geoff

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