On Mon June 20 2011, Alban Diquet wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've encountered a strange issue. It might not be related to OpenSSL itself,
> but maybe it is.
> 
> When sending a Client Hello message that's larger than 270 bytes (not sure
> what the exact limit is, 255 maybe?), lots of servers on the internet don't
> send back any Server Hello, but keep the connection open, so my client ends
> up returning a timeout.
> It's really weird, has anyone seen that behavior ?
> You can get to a 275 byte client hello for example by using OpenSSL 1.0.0.d
> with a TLS1 hello, all the cipher suites explicitly enabled
> 'ALL:NULL:@STRENGTH', and a non empty session ID field.
>

Is that session ID still valid on the server when this happens?
Is it a session ID that the server issued to your client?

Mike
> Then feel free to test it on Facebook.
> Does anyone know what's going on there ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Alban Diquet
> 


______________________________________________________________________
OpenSSL Project                                 http://www.openssl.org
User Support Mailing List                    openssl-users@openssl.org
Automated List Manager                           majord...@openssl.org

Reply via email to