Yes,

I ran firefox through strace and saw that for https websites it uses libssl3.so

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Sander Temme <san...@temme.net> wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Sagar Dixit wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to trace the calls in libssl while I run firefox. I
>> downloaded openssl-0.9.8l.tar.gz  source and added my logging
>> information into source files (just for study purpose) and executed
>> following steps
>>
>> ./config -fPIC shared
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> This created /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so  I added the path to
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ran firefox. But firefox failed with
>>
>> sa...@sagar-laptop:~/Desktop/openssl-0.9.8l$ firefox
>> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> Are you sure Firefox uses OpenSSL?  I was under the impression that it uses 
> the Netscape crypto library.
>
> S.
>
>
>> I used xpcshell to trace the problem and saw this:
>>
>> sa...@sagar-laptop:~/Desktop/openssl-0.9.8l$ xpcshell-1.9
>> xpcshell-1.9: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl3.so: no version information
>> available (required by /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/libxul.so)
>> xpcshell-1.9: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl3.so: no version information
>> available (required by /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/libxul.so)
>> xpcshell-1.9: relocation error: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/libxul.so:
>> symbol SSL_ImplementedCiphers, version NSS_3.2 not defined in file
>> libssl3.so with link time reference
>>
>> I think Mozilla Firefox 3.5 needs libssl3.so   (and renaming libssl.so
>> to libssl3.so did not work and gave same error)
>>
>> I later tried nm on original libssl.so (/usr/lib/libssl.so) and on
>> 'new' libssl.so  (/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so)
>> and found that OPENSSL_0.9.8 symbol is missing in 'new' built libssl.so
>>
>> Am I missing anything in Installation steps ?   How can I pass the
>> versioning information during installation steps ?
>> I read the INSTALL file but could not find any related information.
>>
>> Any help is highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanking you,
>> Sagar
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