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In this message of 2000-03-12, Jan Dries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> respond to
the following question:
Robert Hiltibidal wrote:
>
>[...]
> I have a bit of frustration here. Whenever I use https to connect to
the
> browser, either and any, will time out.
>
> I can connect to port 80 just fine.
[...]
> Any ideas?
>
with this:
> Earlier this week I tracked down this problem with the browsers
hanging
> (on Win32). It turns out to be something with locking. The problem
> occurs in ssl_engine_rand.c, in function ssl_rand_seed(). At one
point or
> another, that function calls RAND_seed() in the OpenSSL library. It in
> its turn locks a critical section, calling CRYPTO_lock(), which in
it's
> turn calls the win32_locking_callback() function in ssl_util.c. The
> WaitForSingleObject(lock_cs[type], INFINITE) call in that function
never
> return. That's why the browsers hang. The call to CRYPTO_lock that
gives
> the problem is the one on line 202 in md_rand.c. Commenting out the
> WaitForSingleObject and it't release counterpart makes mod_ssl work
just
> fine again.
> But don't ask me why the WaitForSingleObject doesn't return.
> WaitForSingleObject waits until it can lock the mutex. The only reason
> why it wouldn't be able to lock it, is because someone else has a lock
> on it. But in that case someone must have locked the mutex without the
> win32_locking_callback(), otherwise it would have shown up in my
trace.
> The win32_locking_callback() acquires and properly releases the lock
> many times prior to the moment when it no longer returns.
> Another possibility, although I don't really see how, is that it would
> be a threading problem.
> Regards,
> Jan Dries
I have the same problem with the precompiled version downloaded from
www.modssl.org/contrib/Apache_1.3.14-mod_ssl_2.7.2-openssl_0.9.6-WIN32.zip,
but the question is : Exist any precompiled version for win32 that solve
this problem?
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