SSL errors – should they be warnings?

  • Recently the plugin reported some broken links with the “Unknown Error” status. Details include

    error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure [Error #35]

    However urls work fine in browsers, and the failure is most probably caused by a peculiarity in cURL or in the server certificate.

    Shouldn’t such cases be triaged as warnings instead?

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  • Ideally, yes, that should be classified as a warning. Right now the plugin just doesn’t distinguish between different types of SSL errors.

    However urls work fine in browsers, and the failure is most probably caused by a peculiarity in cURL or in the server certificate.

    It probably means that the SSLv3 protocol is disabled on the server that the link points, but your server has an old version of curl that’s still trying to use that deprecated protocol for whatever reason.

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