[Info-vax] HP SSL V1.3 (and higher)

[Neil Rieck]

Update: I work on the the OpenSSL problem only when I can find the time and currently am only working with SSL source code kits downloaded from HP.

(since I don't have any problems with "openssl s_client" on other technologies, I now think the problem has more to do with how these test apps are built on OpenVMS, but I digress)

So today I went a little deeper today using a variation of this command:
openssl s_server "-WWW" -debug -accept 4433
on one machine then connecting to it with various platforms (Windows, Solaris, OpenVMS)

This client command:
openssl s_client -connect fqdn:4433 -debug
appears to work from any machine except OpenVMS running HP-SSL-1.3 (or higher) where it appears to hang. When the verbage stops, you are supposed to be able to issue a command like this:
GET /neil.txt HTTP/1.0<enter>

When I do this from what I thought was a hung process, the command gets through to the server, the server picks up file "neil.txt" then sends it back (encrypted) where it appears the client receives the data but either doesn't decrypt it or doesn't display the decrypted data. 

This means that program "s_client.c" might be okay and the problem exists elsewhere. Indeed, I added a few logging lines and it appears that I am leaving "s_client.c" then returning to "openssl.c"

The saga continues...

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/