Hi,

I've got Openfire XMPP servers running on two different networks.  Today I 
noticed that linux users on one network were getting an SSL Handshake error 
when trying to connect Pidgin to the Openfire server.

I also saw that mozilla-nss packages were updated over the weekend.  Our linux 
systems have both mozilla-nss and gnutls libraries installed; moving purple's 
ssl-nss.so library seemed to make Pidgin instead use gnutls, and SSL 
connections worked.

The weird part: the other network has identical versions of linux, openfire, 
pidgin (OpenSUSE's 2.10.10), and the same recently updated mozilla-nss.   But 
when I tested pidgin on a few hosts on *that* network, it worked.  When I moved 
the ssl-gnutls.so file on one of those hosts, I got the same SSL Handshake 
error that the users on the other network saw.  If I moved both ssl-gnutls.so 
and ssl-nss.so, Pidgin reported that there was no SSL available (as expected).  
So on one network, Pidgin appears to prefer nss - and on the other, gnutls.


How does Pidgin/purple choose which to use if both are available?



thanks

Kevin 

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