On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:35:41PM -0400, Rob Neff wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> While testing OpenSSL functionality with a client and server app I wrote,
> I encountered the following issue:
> If the server code is using the SSL_METHOD SSLv3_server_method and the client
> is using TLSv1_client_method, the server fails to negotiate connection. This does
> not happen when the server uses SSLv23_server_method.
>
> The .pod documentation states that SSLv3_server_method should successfully
> negotiate this connection but I cannot get this to work.
You are right and the documentation is wrong.
Unlike SSLv23_server, which understands SSLv2, SSLv3 and SSLv3.1=TLSv1,
SSLv3_server does not understand SSLv3 and TLSv1.
I will recheck the exact behaviour and submit a corrected documentation.
Might take until this evening, though.
Best regards,
Lutz
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