Hello, I do not know if this should go to this list or the OpenSSL list. It sounds like a OpenSSL bug, but maybe someone can verify.
I was getting 500 read timeouts trying to download a 2MB file at around 1.5MB (downloading in chunks) with ActiveState Perl and Crypt::SSLeay v0.51 compiled against OpenSSL v0.9.7c. I then tried the same script on a Linux box and it worked fine. I then noticed I was using IO::Socket::SSL and Net::SSLeay rather than Crypt::SSLeay on the Linux machine, so I uninstalled Crypt::SSLeay on the windows machine and installed the ppm module Net::SSLeay v1.25. It still timed out. So I installed Crypt::SSLeay on the Linux machine and it did not work. After all this I noticed that I had both OpenSSL 0.9.6g and 0.9.7c. The Net::SSLeay was compiled against the 0.9.6g. I installed a version compiled against 0.9.7c and it failed on the download also. Also downloads were working from the site just a couple of weeks ago, and my Crypt::SSLeay install and OpenSSL were not updated or modified. I suppose something could have changed with the server that is causing a problem to show up in OpenSSL, but I don't know. Any ideas? Taylor Carpenter
