Android SDK Manager won't update: connection to https://dl-ssl.google.com refused

Question

This is the same problem as a number of other have reported, e.g.

Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-1.xml, reason: Connect

Answer 1

On linux, I got it working executing the Android SDK Manager with sudo(in your android-sdk-linux/tools folder)

sudo ./android