How do I use SSL with Hexchat/X-Chat?
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Imagine666 · 2013-01-25 00:18

I have been attempting to use SSL with Hexchat with no success. From
several Google searches, I have gathered that I need OpenSSL-WDK and
Zlib-WDK to use it, but I have no idea how to integrate those things
with Hexchat. The links I found to download them are [here](https://gi
thub.com/hexchat/hexchat/tree/master/win32/ext/openssl-wdk) and [here]
(https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/tree/master/win32/ext/openssl-
wdk). I think I may have to compile the libraries from the source
code, but again I have no idea how to do that. Does anyone know how I
do this?

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faghat · 2013-01-25 00:36

Honestly everything should be ready to use out-of-the-box.

You just need to make sure you're telling xChat to connect via SSL -
even if you give it an SSL port, it will keep trying to connect
normally if you don't specify SSL.

To do this, if you use the /server command, just do /server -ssl
irc.network.net 6697(or whatever the SSL port is).
If you connect to servers via the Network List, select your network,
click edit, and make sure the server list is "irc.network.net/6697"
and tick the two boxes "Use SSL for all servers on this network" as
well as "Accept invalid SSL certificate".

If that fails then you should provide the connection error you get
when you don't connect - hopefully it will just be a problem with the
server. If not, you may well need to compile Hexchat yourself/use the
MSI (depending on which one you used the first time).

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aperson · 2013-01-25 00:42

SSL works out of the box on hexchat on windows.  OP needs to be more
specific about how things are failing.

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[deleted] · 2013-01-27 22:37

OP is a moron, faghat had the recipe for success! I made the mistake
of using the wrong port for the SSL connection, and this was causing
my failures. I thought my problems were greater than that. I was
wrong.