Merge pull request #1003 from pooler/httpsverinfo

Retrieve version information using HTTPS
10 years ago · 1609d6607f
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/gui/qt/version_getter.py
+++ b/gui/qt/version_getter.py
@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class VersionGetter(threading.Thread):

    def run(self):
        try:
-            con = httplib.HTTPConnection('electrum.org', 80, timeout=5)
+            con = httplib.HTTPSConnection('electrum.org', timeout=5)
            con.request("GET", "/version")
            res = con.getresponse()
        except socket.error as msg: