Sonic.net

Been using usenet for many years - one reason is that I can keep up with lots of things in a single, consistent (email client) window. My client is claws-mail (Linux), a great app which supports email, usenet and (through a plugin) RSS/Atom feeds.

So, I figured that I'd ease the blow of losing usenet by at least receiving Sonic forum feeds. But when trying to add the feed (feed.php), I get an "SSL connect error" response.

I'm well beyond my level of knowledge here, but the feed is obviously encrypted, and the claws-mail feed reader looks to be rejecting it for that reason. (I receive several other [non-encrypted] feeds just fine, BTW.)

Am I using the wrong URL, or is there a non-encrypted version of Sonic's feed? Or can anyone point me to some other way that I can get claws-mail to accept Sonic's feed?

Thanks!

The URL itself is working fine on my copy of Thunderbird, so I suspect this is a matter of some difference in how our clients are handling the SSL connection. I'm not aware of a non-https means of accessing this forum.

It could be that your system has an older version of OpenSSL. Check what version you have and make sure it's at least 1.0.0.

This happened to me while writing a script to read and parse the feeds - my development environment has an older version of OpenSSL, OpenSSL/0.9.8r, and cannot connect and read the file. My testing environment has OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips, and can successfully read and parse the file.

Hmmm... I just tried the feed in Thunderbird and, sure enough, it works fine. I guess claw's RSS plugin is just broken. (Looking deeper, the plugin depends on libcurl3-gnutls for its ssl connection, and both gnutls and openssl look to be at the correct versions.) Guess it's time to file a bug-report.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!