Visual Studio 2012 getting "libgit2.Category=Net An error occurred while sending request" error

[Alex Wang]

I know VS2012 is old, but it has been working without issues for more than six months.

Since last Friday, when I tried to commit changes to the server, I would get a 'libgit2.Category=Net An error occurred while sending request' error... 

I tested in two different network environment, also on two different computers (one that I've been using for 6+months, one that was freshly installed).. All combinations get me this error..

I even tried to clone a repo to local, and got the same error..

Has anybody had similar issues?

Thanks.

Alex.

[Alex Wang]

I guess I've found the answer?

https://bitbucket.org/blog/deprecating-tlsv1-tlsv1-1-2018-12-01?_ga=2.109344000.487924057.1543901598-229989622.1543901598

[gpawley]

If anyone else has this problem, you can force earlier versions of VS to use TLS1.2 by setting the machine-wide keys described in this VS Developer Community post: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/201457/unable-to-connect-to-github-due-to-tls-12-only-cha.html