irssi on Windows

[John A. Wallace]

Hello. I would like to run Irssi in a terminal on my Windows machine. I
have 64-bit Win7. I downloaded the Windows version of the program from the
link on here: http://www.irssi.org. I unzipped everything to one folder and
used the irssi.bat command file to start it. The Windows Terminal fired up
just fine and Irssi initialized its environment. I did get connected
successfully to freenode network with this command: "/connect
chat.freendode.net", and I then joined a channel and chatted. So, all is
good there using a simple connection.



However, I want to connect with freenode using the SSL. I looked at the
instructions for doing so at http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#ssl,
which shows specifically in connection with irssi that this command would be
needed:



/connect -ssl_verify -ssl_capath /etc/ssl/certs chat.freenode.net 6697

It also mentions in that instruction that two certificates would be needed,
both of which I have put copies into the /etc folder and changed the above
path accordingly, like so:



/connect -ssl_verify -ssl_capath %homepath%/mytools/irssi/etc
chat.freenode.net 6697



Nevertheless, whenever I use this command in irssi, it fails to connect with
ssl. These are the messages I get from it:

11:04 -!- Irssi: Connecting to chat.freenode.net [84.240.3.129] port 6697

11:04 -!- Irssi: warning Could not verify SSL servers certificate:

11:04 -!- Irssi: warning Subject : /OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=Gandi

Standard Wildcard SSL/CN=*.freenode.net

11:04 -!- Irssi: warning Issuer : /C=FR/O=GANDI SAS/CN=Gandi Standard SSL
CA

11:04 -!- Irssi: warning MD5 Fingerprint :

AB:91:D8:20:B3:5A:B1:B4:52:D7:3E:20:1C:F1:20:E9

11:04 -!- Irssi: Connection lost to chat.freenode.net



So, I am not sure what the problem could be. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.

[Aleksey Tsalolikhin]

Post by John A. Wallace
However, I want to connect with freenode using the SSL.

Hi, John. You don't need to verify the SSL certificate in order to use SSL.

Try this:

/set use_ssl on
/set ssl_verify off
/save
/connect -ssl chat.freenode.net 6697

Best,
-at