On 24/03/2010, at 14:43, Ryan McIntosh wrote:

> Unfortunately curl and wget connect just fine - the only https clients I have 
> found that present an error are Firefox 3.0+ and chrome/chromium.

It may be related to keep-alive then. Neither curl, nor wget can use keep-alive 
between independent invocations.

> I have thought about writing a selenium test to refresh FF on the home page.  
> I think I will do so.

Please do! That'd be *pretty* useful for tracing and fixing the issue.

> Some further information.  The service was up and stable for over a month on 
> a 32-bit debian system (same version of c library and openssl).  Due to 
> memory constraints we migrated the front end web server to a 64-bit Debian at 
> the beginning of February and that's about when this started happening.  
> Yesterday, I compiled a version of cherokee exactly the same on a 32-bit 
> Debian system and chrooted it on the 64-bit server.  I am going to run this 
> cherokee binary on the 64-bit server and hopefully that alleviates the issue. 
>  If it does, it would indicate an incompatibility with the 64-bit libc 
> shipping with Debian lenny.

It could be, although I think it's more likely related to TLS connections being 
left open (because of a keep-alive request) on situations when they should had 
been closed.

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