Please ignore this "discovery" as it turns out the reason was just that WWWOFFLE was in Offline mode, nothing to do with the new packages.
The best solution I have found for now is to add any sites which use HTTPS to the "No Proxy" line in the Proxies config screen in Konq. On Saturday 07 April 2001 6:47 pm, David Morgan wrote: > UPDATE: I've just done an upgrade via apt and two crypto packages got > upgraded. This must be the auth proxy fix someone mentioned. Anyway, > whereas yesterday with Konq and WWWOFFLE any attempt to access a SSL site > (i.e. HTTPS) just hung and eventually timed out, now I immediately get an > error dialog "The process for the ... protocol died unexepectedly". Which > is actually a lot better as at least you know you've got an error > situation, before I had assumed I was just having problems with busy sites > for a long while. > > Will investigate further now... >