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. > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > -- George Cotton, WB5JJJ PO Box 1025 Russellville, AR 72811 479.968.7737 Home 479.857.7737 Cell DMR K5CS (Local Repeater) - 310515, CC1, TS2 DMR Arkansas - 3105 4
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