[gnutls-help] Connection failing to a site

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 12:43 -0800, Niranjan Rao wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On Ubuntu 12.04.
> 
> When trying to connect to site www.uasecho.com using webkit, I get error 
> SSL handshake failed. I tried running gnutls-cli and get following output.
> 
> gnutls-cli -V www.uasecho.com
> Resolving 'www.uasecho.com'...
> Connecting to '198.27.57.107:443'...
> *** Fatal error: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
> *** Handshake has failed
> GnuTLS error: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.

There is something with the server. It works if you disable TLS 1.2.
However, the best it to use a supported version of gnutls:
http://www.gnutls.org/download.html

regards,
Nikos