Built ssl-enabled fossil, then:

<pre>
lap: ~/proj/fossil-ssl$ ./fossil clone https://ron@www.fossil-scm.org/ ../f.ssl.repo
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:              49          1          0          0
password for ron:
Received:          20          1          0          0
Send:             619         24          0          0
1Server Error: login failed
./fossil: server says: login failed
</pre>

(obviously, I entered in the correct password...)

<hr><i>drh added on 2010-01-21 22:08:15:</i><br>
I pushed check-in [652f20ef9c55a6972485532d8110a0876f311e83] to the main
server using HTTPS in a build of that same version.  So whatever the problem
was, it seems to be resolved now.

<hr><i>ron added on 2010-01-22 06:36:43:</i><br>
sorry; I synced to version [652f20ef9c55a6972485532d8110a0876f311e83] adn did a clean compile.

Then:
<verbatim>
lap: ~/proj/fossil-ssl$ ./fossil clone https://ron:xxxxx@fossil-scm.org/ ../f.ssl
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
Send:              49          1          0          0

Unknown SSL certificate:

  countryName               = US
  stateOrProvinceName       = North Carolina
  localityName              = Charlotte
  organizationName          = SQLite.org

Issued By:

  countryName               = US
  stateOrProvinceName       = North Carolina
  localityName              = Charlotte
  organizationName          = SQLite.org


Accept certificate [a=always/y/N]? a
Received:          20          1          0          0
Send:             619         24          0          0
Server Error: login failed
Received:          20          1          0          0
Send:              43          0          0          0
password for ron:
ERROR.  Server did not reply
Total network traffic: 1052 bytes sent, 314 bytes received
Rebuilding repository meta-data...
0 (0%)...
project-id: (null)
server-id:  5e5e3b2fd45938224ed1653066314d3395d3af3d
admin-user: ron (password is "985b3b")
</verbatim>

And I have a local f.ssl which is bogus.  I am not able to log in with an SSL client, at least not for clone operation