xmpp/jabber: ssl handshake failed

[Raoul Bhatia]

Binary package hint: pidgin

ssl handshake fails with jabber/xmpp servers which require a strong cipher. see http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2008-May/001227.html for further details

[Raoul Bhatia (raoul-bhatia)]

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2008-May/001227.html

[Raoul Bhatia (raoul-bhatia)]

pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)

[knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f)]

The following patch resolves these issues. I reformatted the patch so it applies without problems on 2.4.1 (hardy) and 2.4.2 (intrepid). The original patch was posted to the pidgin mailing list:

http://www.nabble.com/Pidgin-cannot-connect-to-amessage.de-using-TLS-secured-XMPP-td17059290.html

Drop the patch file in the debian/patches directory in the pidgin package and rebuild pidgin (dpkg-buildpackage -b) to get these sites to work again.

[Craig (candrews-integralblue)]

I just upgraded to Pidgin 2.5 from the pidgin-developers PPA (http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ubuntu hardy main) and the problem has not been resolved there.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this is fixed now. thanks for reporting.