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

I had the same issue - then i noticed you can revert to http as well. THis is easier trying to figure out the firewall configuration.

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