SSL issue for Bitcoin Server Override?

[FrancisPouliot]

I wasn't able to connect to stratum://electrum.satoshiportal.com:5002

For my electrum client, I usually conenct to port 5002

It worked with stratum://electrum.satoshiportal.com:5001 though

[paullinator]

Your 50002 port is an encrypted connection which we are unable to support since electrum uses TCP sockets (not standard HTTP) and there isn't support for encrypted TCP sockets in the native C++ layer of iOS or Android. We tried to add support ourselves but it was quite a rats nest. We're moving future version of the app to Javascript with ReactNative and so we can easily support encrypted connections.

[FrancisPouliot]

ah ok makes sense!

So basically, when it wasn't working, there was just an endless "Sending" loop (trying to broadcast a transaction).

Is there a way to check that the servers are valid ? If so, an error message would be useful.

[paullinator]

Interesting... This hasn't been a well tested case in the past as we only recently let users specify their own nodes. We definitely show errors when servers respond with an error. Looks like we need to add a timeout for spending transactions if the servers just don't respond.

[FrancisPouliot]

Maybe the app crashed. I re-started it and I don't think there was any memory of the unbroadcasted tx