3.1.2 broke Dropbox for me

Glad I’m not the only one!

ERROR: Dropbox API: (59) Unknown cipher in list: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-

Across all my sites!

@peter vanDoorn: It is considered impolite to interrupt another poster’s ongoing thread unless you are posting a solution or suggestion. As per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic.

You can try the follwoing mini Plugin to get it work again.

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: BackWPup disable SSL connection verifying
 * Plugin URI: https://marketpress.com/
 * Description: Disables the verifying from SSL connections in backup destinations
 * Author: Inpsyde GmbH
 * Author URI: https://inpsyde.com
 * Version: 0.1
 * Network: true
 * License: GPLv3
 * License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0
 */

add_filter( 'backwpup_cacert_bundle', 'backwpup_disable_ssl_verify' );
function backwpup_disable_ssl_verify ( $file ) {

	return FALSE;
}

Hi Daniel,

Thank you very much – installing the mini plugin did the trick!

I have a few remaining questions and hope you can shed some light on this:

– are we still using SSL when connecting to Dropbox?

– i understand from other posts that this won’t be included in the standard code, so I can just leave the fix enabled even for future versions?

Thanks again,
Julien

Yes, SSL will used. But the Certificate will not checked.
Yes, you can lave it enabled.

Thanks a lot Daniel!

A question to clarify, Before I update BackWPup across all the websites.

All of the websites I made are using dropbox for backups – will updating plugin now break this and I will have to use the fix above to solve it?

Not necessarily I guess. But if you encounter the same problem, here’s a fix.

I don’t have a proper SSL certificate installed on my server so maybe this is causing the problem. But this is just a guess.

Same issue here. My fix was to remove 3.1.2 and re-install 3.0.13. That version seems to work better than 3.1, 3.1.1 or 3.1.2 for me across the board.

How do I reinstall 3.1.1? Where can I find it?

on the developer tab of this support page are the older versions

Hi, sbailey4,

I downloaded 3.1.1 from the developer tab, but I can’t figure out how to run it. I can open the folder, but there’s no option for me to install the files.

Can You Pleas post the “[INFO] curl ver.:” from a logfile.
I think it depends on the curl SSL Version that will be used.

Hi Daniel,

This comes from a logfile of mine:

[INFO] curl ver.: 7.19.7; NSS/3.14.0.0

Cheers,
Julien

What is the actual name of Mini plugin to install?