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Having to specify ssl:// prefix for SSL connections is confusing #1291

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darosior opened this issue Sep 7, 2024 · 4 comments
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Having to specify ssl:// prefix for SSL connections is confusing #1291

darosior opened this issue Sep 7, 2024 · 4 comments
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@darosior
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darosior commented Sep 7, 2024

The connection to the Electrum server might fail just because you forgot to manually specify to Liana to not talk in cleartext to the server thanks to a manually-input prefix to the URL. In terms of UX we can do better.

We could:

  • Have a small text hint (possibly inside the text input itself) to not forget ssl://
  • Have a dropdown between SSL and cleartext right before the text input with default to SSL
  • Try to be smart and test both with and without SSL when not specified in the URL (could lead to silently downgrading from SSL to cleartext, so meh)
  • Something else?
@darosior darosior added GUI gui related Enhancement Improving an existing functionality UX labels Sep 7, 2024
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pythcoiner commented Sep 7, 2024

i'd go for:

  • in every case we don't care the prefix, ping both at install step, if one ping works we update input field
  • if input field is not ssl, we display a warning

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note we already have a hint but only if the address is invalid:
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i'd go for:

  • in every case we don't care the prefix, ping both at install step, if one ping works we update input field
  • if input field is not ssl, we display a warning

i've implemented this approach in #1296

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At this point, this doesn't need to be in v7.

@darosior darosior removed this from the v7 - Liana milestone Sep 10, 2024
@nondiremanuel nondiremanuel added this to the v8 - Liana milestone Sep 16, 2024
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