> [david.sm...@cern.ch - Tue Jun 23 11:06:26 2009]:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The bug report over on the apache tracker:
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46952
> 
> has been updated - there is a utility to generate a set of CA  
> certificates, which should allow one to reproduce the problem and more  
> information about when the failure has been seen.
> 
> I also sent an analysis of the sequence of events leading up to the  
> problem; and a "trial" fix - meaning that I see that it does fix the  
> problem but I'd like the community's opinion on the approach. Could  
> some of the openssl developers follow the link and consider the  
> analysis and possibly the change?
> 

I agree with the analysis. An alternative normally would be to try and
flush any pending data in the BIO state machine on subsequent I/O calls
(i.e. including a subsequent read) but since there can be separate read
and write bios in OpenSSL that's not guaranteed to work.

Steve.
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