[solved] PDF generation failing for HTTPS URLs

[elyngved]

If you are having an issue with your PDFs suddenly failing when trying to open HTTPS URLs, check this out. The POODLE vulnerability that was discovered on Oct 17 has lead to much of the internet disabling the SSL3 protocol. The default SSL protocol that PhantomJS uses happens to be SSL3.

PhantomJS should release v1.9.8 soon that makes TLSv1 the default protocol. But until then we'll need to tweak the config to use the alternate protocol. Check out this commit that simply adds the sslProtocol config value to the config.json file.