I got that error message yesterday on Sierra.
Tried to reproduce it today after having restarted Skim and it updated
without problem. Sorry I can't be of more help :/
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> On 9 Dec 2017, at 14:31, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 3 Dec 2017, at 13:26, Juergen Fenn <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Am 03.12.17 um 13:02 Uhr schrieb
> [email protected]:
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> BTW can either of you find a more detailed error log about this in the
> Console app?
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> Indeed, there is a log which says that there was an SSL error. Sparkle
> was unable to connect to the server in a secure way.
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> Of course, I tried it again after a while, to no avail. OTOH, I don't
> have this issue with other projects hosted on Sourceforge, e.g., the
> updater works well with BibDesk.
>
> However, thanks for explaining, Christiaan!
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> Best,
> Jürgen.
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> BTW, what OS version do you run? I get the impression that older OS
> versions have a bug in their app transport security.
>
> Christiaan
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> Sorry, I see you already mentioned it was El Capitan. So far, I only get
> these reports for that OS version. So I now am quite certain the problem is
> in El Capitan. It seems to have a bug in app transport security (blocking
> of non-https URLs). Probably related to the fact that this is the OS
> version that actually introduced this feature, so bugs weren’t fully ironed
> out. In that case I advice you to update your system (you should do so
> anyway, for security reasons). The only way we could work around that is to
> degrade security for every user, and I really don’t want to do that. Users
> shouldn’t get less security because some users don’t update their system.
>
> Christiaan
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