[Sparkle] SSL Certificate error alert when appcast server not reachable

[Andy Matuschak]

That's really weird. During a network outage, especially, how could  
Sparkle possibly know that you were running an https server? I mean,  
I'm certainly not doing any kind of fancy SSL kwidgeeboo that should  
make that happen.  I'm guessing it's some kind of weird certificate  
that's having an unexpected effect.

Has anyone else on the list ever encountered this kind of error while  
doing normal NSURLConnection kind of stuff?

- Andy Matuschak

On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Paul Collins wrote:

> During a network outage, I noticed that the automatic at-launch
> update reported this error:
>
> The SSL certificate for "http://(my appcast server).com" was
> rejected. <My App> does not currently support downloading with
> invalid or self-signed certificates."
>
> The SUFeedURL is http, not https.
>
> I happening to be running an https server (yes, self-signed) at the
> same address as the http server used for appcasts. Even when the
> https port is blocked, when the http port is unreachable, I see the
> error. Perhaps this certificate was cached on my Mac--if so this
> might be moot--as customers are unlikely to ever connect to https
> without being able to connect to http.
>
> Is there anything I can/should do to make sure my customers never see
> this error? I guess I'm looking for a "never try https" preference.
>
> (The https server is only used privately).
>
> Aside from that, Sparkle is stupendous!
>
> --Paul Collins
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