KSTARS SSL handshake failed during update asteroid orbital elements

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Hi community,
after update Kstars on Rpi 5 I can not update the asteroid elements.
The ohter downloads (sattelittes, supernova, etc) are working fine.

This is displayed:
Fehler beim Herunterladen der Asteroidendaten: SSL handshake failed

Any Tips for that ?

many thx in advance
Gemskip

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Hi,
I had the same issue here.
I believe there’s a problem with the CA authorities registered on Linux systems and the certificate used by NASA’s JSON API.
To demonstrate this, try calling curl with https:

ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov)

You’ll likely get an SSL handshake error.

There are three possible solutions:

  1. Install the CA certificate (and the full intermediate chain) on your system.
  2. Write a small Python script to download the JSON file from JPL without SSL verification.
  3. Install a version 3.7 of KStars, which seems to avoid this issue (though I haven’t verified it).
    I solved with option 2..