[Remops] Oops! Small problem!

[richard at quicksilvermail.net]

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:28:23 +0000, you wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:47:28PM -0600, Richard Christman wrote:
> >=20
> > Ok, I tried your patch. Your code was good. Here's the error:
> > Error: [173992]
> > http://raw.githubusercontent.com/remops/allpingers/master/allpingers.txt:
> > URL download error: -2146697210
>
> Thanks, the error is shown as a signed int when it's really unsigned,
> making it: 0x800C0006.  This is documented as: INET_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND,
> dispite the documentation for URLDownloadToFile not listing that as a
> possible return code. Hey ho, it's all good fun!
>
> It's possible this is as simple as changing the DEFAULT_ALLPINGERSURL in
> config.h to "https://" instead of "http://".  Would you mind giving it a
> try.  I'm guessing we'll get a new, more meaningful error code.  :)

Well done!

That change did the trick. URLDownloadFile did an SSL retrieve! That's
great.

So I thought, 'it should be able to download stats/keys via SSL also.'
But...

I tried all the stats sites that have SSL capability and got these
results:

jeremySSL  error -2146697211
austria    error -2146697191
paranoic   error -2146697191
deuxpi     ok

Interesting difference in results. It turns out that jeremySSL, austria,
and paranoic all have self-signed SSL certificates. When testing with
chrome browser, I was warned it could not verify the sites certs.

On the other hand, deuxpi, did not throw a warning at all and it
successfully got the stats.

It looks like the problem is the security warning on jeremySSL, austria,
and paranoic.

I've been researching this but as of right now, I've found no solution.

We were not expecting stats/keys to be downloaded via SSL. It might be
we could release the program without a solution to this, right now, but
I'm happy to spend a few days searching for an answer.

What ever you want is fine with me.

Regards,

Richard

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