"Network Error: SSL handshake failed" trying to authenticate SeaDrive 1.0.12

Seafile Server 11.0.12

One of my users is stuck with Windows Server 2016. It appears SeaDrive 3.x and 2.x require Windows 10 or newer, so I installed SeaDrive 1.0.12 on a test VM running Windows Server 2016. While trying to add an account to SeaDrive I get the error “Network Error: SSL handshake failed”.

Since I’m accessing the server over SSL via an nginx reverse proxy, I tried enabling TLS versions 1, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3, but I still get the same error.

Is there a way to overcome this error, or is this going to be a hard fail trying to use SeaDrive 1.0.12 with the latest server version?

I bypassed nginx and connected directly to gunicorn (http://files.mydomain.com:8000) with SeaDrive and it said something like ‘syncing folder’, but My Library continues to show as empty, even after rebooting the client machine, so it seems there are compatibility problems that run deeper than just TLS versions between SeaDrive 1.x and Seafile Server 11.x.