RPC SSL to btcd

[PRabahy]

I am trying to use bitcoind-ncurses to connect to btcd. I successfully got bitcoind-ncurses running on my box and had to make a small mod to it for it to support SSL (PRabahy/bitcoind-ncurses@d49a8c4). Even after doing that, I am having trouble getting to to connect.

I am very inexperience with python so began adding print statements to the code and believe I have the bug narrowed down to authproxy.py --> call --> self.__conn.request(...). I see that it makes the call, but never executes the print statement that I added on the next line. I assume that this means that it threw an exception.

I was suspicious of the call to httplib.HTTPSConnection(...) because it was passing None for the cert and key, but even after adding those it is still skipping my print statement.

I would love to eliminate some variables, but I am also having trouble getting bitcoind to run with RPC SSL and btcd requires RPC SSL (no option for insecure).

[PRabahy]

Figured it out after some more debugging. Python 2.7.5 (at least on Windows) has a bug with negotiating the SSL version. Once I upgraded to 2.7.8 it started working.

https://github.com/azeteki/bitcoind-ncurses/issues/5

[arnuschky]

Described fix did not work for me on Ubuntu 12.04, with any python version (2.7.9, for example). See PR #50 for a fix.