Re: [Pan-users] New 0.138 version on Pan ppa

[Duncan]

Bob posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:26:34 +0000 as excerpted:

> Re-installed the 0.138 from the ppa.  I must have been thinking of 0.137
> when I said what I did about the servers.  0.138 is not set up for SSL,
> and I wish that information would be posted somewhere before an upgrade
> is attempted.
> 
> Sorry for waste of bandwidth.

It's a build option, and whoever provided the PPA must not have enabled 
it.

FWIW, SSL/TLS support is working in general, but being newer code, it 
lacks the time and extremely broad usage tested reliability of the plain-
text connection code.  There have been some issues with it including one 
report resolved just before 0.138, I believe.  So 0.138 is AFAIK free of 
known SSL bugs, but it's still quite possible some provider with corner-
case behavior somewhere will trip it up, while an unencrypted connection 
is at least in theory far more tested and should be long trouble-free by 
now.

So yeah, glad you figured out the issue and got it working, but 
meanwhile, even for those with enabled SSL builds, I'd suggest either 
trying plain-text connections if there's problems, or simply sticking 
with plain-text connections entirely for the time being, if you just want 
the most trouble-free connection possible.  Of course for those who have 
specific reason to want/need SSL (ISP interference or suspicion of ISP 
tracking), it's good that pan is getting the feature, but it's still new 
enough that people who don't really care about it might be best served 
just using plain text, avoiding any problems with SSL entirely.

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