Cannot sign in; "SSL handshake failed"

[wjt]

Trying to sign in, I enter my instance name (I tried mastodon.social and botsin.space) and see:

*Network Error SSL handshake failed

I see this on both Endless OS (internal development branch) and Fedora 29.

[bilelmoussaoui]

Does it happen if you build the package yourself? I'm not having the issue here. I'm pretty sure it's an issue somewhere upstream as they forgot to disable ssl_strict on their libsoup communications or something like that.

[wjt]

Yes, if I build it myself I see the same issue:

$ flatpak install --user flathub io.elementary.BaseApp/x86_64/juno
$ flatpak-builder --install --user app com.github.bleakgrey.tootle.json
$ flatpak run com.github.bleakgrey.tootle/x86_64/master

(I would be sad if that were not the case, because it would mean the build isn't reproducible!)

I'm pretty sure it's an issue somewhere upstream as they forgot to disable ssl_strict on their libsoup communications or something like that.

SoupSocket:ssl-strict is documented as:

Whether certificate errors should be considered a connection error.

Surely this should enabled? An invalid certificate should prevent the connection being established.

[bilelmoussaoui]

What I meant by building it yourself, is by building it from source code. Do you have any flatpaked app that requires network access that you could try please?

[wjt]

Yes, many. I'm typing this in a Flatpak:d Firefox, for example, and GNOME Boxes from Flathub is happily downloading a new Ubuntu ISO, Slack is running, Transmission is downloading a new Endless OS ISO.

[bilelmoussaoui]

Will check that as soon as possible

[cagatay-y]

It looks like an upstream issue: https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle/issues/121

[wjt]

Must've been something to do with the runtime – this works now.

[bilelmoussaoui]

@wjt Magic of flatpak! Thanks for reporting back.