Bill:

Your instructions indeed solved the problem.

I deleted the manually downloaded .csv from earlier and ran the  OpenSSL
installer in your link.  I restarted WSJTx while I watched the WSJTx folder
and the .cvs was automatically downloaded with NO error screen.

Thanks.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:31 PM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com>
wrote:

> On 17/10/2018 18:23, Bill Somerville wrote:
>
> Open a Command prompt window (**not** Administrator mode),
>
> type the following command at the prompt:
>
> where libeay32.dll
>
> and report back the results printed.
>
> Thanks all for the reports. As expected the problem is that some users
> have no OpenSSL libraries installed and others have a variety of versions
> supplied with various other packages.
>
> There is no perfect solution to this, for example:
>
> 1) It would be great to package the right OpenSSL libraries with WSJT-X
> but US state and local legislation about strong cryptography software
> prevents us from doing that easily.
>
> 2) We could recommend that users install the OpenSSL libraries separately
> and copy them into the WSJT-X bin directory but this will cause problems
> for the WSJT-X uninstaller when later upgrading.
>
> 3) We could recommend that users install the OpenSSL libraries separately
> and add their location to the PATH environment variable but other
> applications are likely to undo that by doing the same with the version of
> OpenSSL they need.
>
> 4) We could recommend that users install the OpenSSL libraries separately
> and let the installer copy them to the system directory, this is not
> usually recommended as it may break other applications.
>
> So I am going to go with the least bad of the above options which I think
> is (4). Instructions below.
>
> By the way, the reason OpenSSL is required is that the ARRL web server
> will not respond to insecure requests (http) and only serves secure URLs
> (https). If an http request is made then it redirects to an https
> equivalent.
>
> Those experiencing LotW download errors can try the following:
>
> Download the OpenSSL installer for Windows from here:
> https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html , specifically the "Win32
> OpenSSL v1.0.2p Light" version. Note that this is the right version even if
> you are running 64-bit Windows. Download link is
> https://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL_Light-1_0_2p.exe .
>
> Run the downloaded installer taking default options and accept the option
> to install the libraries into the Windows system directory.
>
> Please report back on if this solves the issues? You will probably need to
> restart WSJT-X.
>
> For those that have tried copying random OpenSSL DLLs into their WSJT-X
> bin directory, you will need to remove them as well.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
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