On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:08 PM Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Douglas, > > Thanks for your help. I've spent about 6 hours on this problem and it > has just vanished ... > > I tried elinks as a substitute for telnet ... telnet does succeed in the > socket handshake, to is useful for quick test of that part of the > connection. > Just for future reference, openssl s_client is the usual way to test the connection stack to the server, which gives you the options to force specific versions of tls, specific ciphers, etc.