+patchounou Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 I'm using a Magellan eXplorist gc, to transfer my pocket queries to my gps i use vantagepoint, but now they cannot connect with the server of geocaching.com. WHY ? Quote Link to comment
+Die Baumanns Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 I think the Problem ist this Service:https://api.Groundspeak.com/LiveV6/Geocaching.svc/Silverlightsoap Quote Link to comment
+patchounou Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 This link don't work ?? Quote Link to comment
+clintongould27 Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 please anyone help me … my computer PC . vantagepoint software - GPS about geocaching live is not work .. this say (an error occurred during connecting to the geocaching.com server) why why I need put back on it pls or geocaching can do fix something add new vantagepoint software. Quote Link to comment
+Gran & Gramps Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I'm having the same problem. Any solutions? Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Could this be related to old versions of TLS no longer being supported? https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2018/07/security-update-required-for-android-devices/ Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 19 minutes ago, niraD said: Could this be related to old versions of TLS no longer being supported? https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2018/07/security-update-required-for-android-devices/ Yep, that's it. It took me a bit, but I was able to download the "latest" version of VantagePoint. It's no longer available for download from the Magellan website, so I had to go back in the Wayback Machine to find a link where I was able to download it from. The latest version is 2.43, which was released in December 2013, so Magellan clearly isn't supporting or updating the software anymore. Once I got it installed, I inspected the network packets that were generated when trying to connect from VantagePoint to geocaching.com. As suspected, the software tried connecting using TLS 1.0, which was rejected by the geocaching.com servers due to the recent disabling of TLS 1.0. In summary, TLS 1.0 has been disabled by geocaching.com in response to an ongoing global deprecation of that protocol, so it's unlikely that it will be re-enabled. VantagePoint relies on the TLS 1.0 protocol for communicating with geocaching.com, but the software isn't being updated any more by Magellan, so support for TLS 1.1 or 1.2 won't be added. So, VantagePoint will never be able to communicate with geocaching.com ever again. Quote Link to comment
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