Cannot access some https sites anymore using WebKit-604.5.6_2-Leopard-PowerPC

[Anonymous]

Hi,

More and more frequently, I cannot access some https web sites using WebKit-604.5.6_2-Leopard-PowerPC, with an error message such as "Safari cannot open the page « https://community.smartthings.com/... » because Safari cannot establish a secure connection to server « community.smartthings.com ».

I can still access those sites using TenFourFox7450-FPR18, but TenFourFox is sooooo much slower than WebKit that it is a real pain.

Webkit has not been updated for the last 18 months.
=> Any hope of getting an update which would again achieve full https compatibility on Leopard ?

Thanks again for your great work, which allows me to keep my Cube alive ! :-)
Jean-Jacques

[Tobias Netzel]

The problem with https (TLS) is the lack of modern secure ciphers. Leopard WebKit did come with the latest ciphers Apple shipped with later versions of OS X but unfortunately Apple had switched to an entirely different TLS stack some years ago leaving us without any code to backport (in fact only because of that switch the old code was open sourced by Apple and made possible updating the TLS stack used in Leopard WebKit at all).