Problem with the upgrade - got an error message about inability to agree ciphers. Search of forum lead to this post, but the file it linked to isn't there. So I rescued the xnet.dll from the backup, and used that, and I'm back to a working editor

Re the upgrade suggestion:

Thanks Jussi; I've taken that advice.

But back to the original question: is it possible to trap the ssl dll errors, or is that just impossible because of the way the errors are rasied and processed?

FTP editing rocks, especially via SSH.

However..... the other daythe network which connected the server which I was editing on had a "BGP fart" (yep, thats what they said happened, I kid you not) which caused the server to become unreachable for a while.

This was all unbeknownst to me, I was ...