haskell ssl connections using Network.TLS

this has been bugging me for a little while but i finally made some progress with the following program. it works, but for some reason freenode has a bad handshake and everything dies.

import System.IO
import Network
import Network.TLS
import Network.TLS.Extra
import Crypto.Random
import Text.Printf
import qualified Control.Exception as E
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as L
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as B
import Control.Monad


params = defaultParams {pCiphers = ciphersuite_all}

host = "chat.freenode.net"
port = "6697"


-- | Makes a regular connection to the server.
connect_reg :: IO ()
connect_reg = do
  h <- connectTo host $ PortNumber $ fromIntegral (read port :: Int)
  hGetLine h >>= putStrLn


-- | Makes a SSL connection to the server.
connect_ssl :: IO ()
connect_ssl = do

  gen <- newGenIO :: IO SystemRandom
  ctx <- connectionClient host port params gen
  E.catch (handshake ctx) perror

  let setnick = L.pack "NICK testderp\r\nUSER testderp 0 * :Testing the derp\r\n"
  sendData ctx setnick

  listen ctx

listen :: TLSCtx a -> IO ()
listen ctx = forever $ do
  out <- recvData ctx
  B.putStr out

perror e = putStrLn $ "!!! " ++ show (e :: E.SomeException)


main :: IO ()
main = connect_ssl

$ runhaskell ssltest.hs 
!!! HandshakeFailed (Error_Packet_Parsing "Failed reading:
    certrequest distinguishname not of the correct
    size\nFrom:\thandshake\n\n")
ssltest.hs: ConnectionNotEstablished

i guess i’ll try to figure this out before too long.