Elinks: SSL Error

Question

My problem is simple, only look the screenshot:

**For tired eyes:

-bash-4.1$ cat /etc/*release
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ elinks -version
ELinks 0.12pre5
Built on Jan  4 2013 07:04:04

Features:
Standard, IPv6, gzip, bzip2, UTF-8, Periodic Saving, Viewer (Search
History, Timer, Marks), Cascading Style Sheets, Protocol
(Authentication, BitTorrent, File, FTP, HTTP, URI rewrite, User
protocols), SSL (OpenSSL), MIME (Option system, Mailcap, Mimetypes
files), LED indicators, Bookmarks, Cookies, Form History, Global
History, Goto URL History
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ elinks -dump -eval 'set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 1' https://10.113.1.104:443/sgc/registro2.asp
ELinks: SSL error
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ elinks -dump -eval 'set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 0' https://10.113.1.104:443/sgc/registro2.asp
ELinks: SSL error
-bash-4.1$

I don't understand why elinks still shows the error SSL. Any idea?

Answer 1

First make sure

1. your server is indeed listening to port 443 and
2. it receives/sends traffic from/to that port.

Also check the key length for your server (10.113.1.104) certificate; it might very be that elinks expects 2048-bit keys while your certificate key length is less than that:

$ echo | openssl s_client -connect 10.113.1.104:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -text -noout | grep "Public-Key"

Answer 2

You may configure elinks to ignore SSL verification: edit elinks.conf and change the connection.ssl.cert_verify setting to 0, then restart elinks.

set connection.ssl.cert_verify = 0