you should post to the entire group exactly what you did in order to get OpenSSL and IPlanet working in parallel. wally winzer jr.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashwin C Uthappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 07:31 Subject: OpenSSL and iplanet problems - No more!! > Steve, Tom, Eric (and others)!!!, > Thank you so much for your suggestions. I just changed the names of the > functions and used #defines in the necessary .h files and things are > working fine.... I really do appreciate your help!! > > BTW, just a last query, while changing the signature of the MD5_Update() > and the SHA1_Update(), I also looked for the actual implementation of > these functions. While their signatures exist in md5.h and sha.h > respectively, I could not find any .c file within the source that > contained the function definition. According to my understanding, I > should also have the source so that my changes take effect after > compilation/installation , right??? So, did I miss something somewhere?? > BTW, this is not a critical issue (now that it's OK!!), but I just want > to get to know it..... > > - Ashwin > > > > Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 28, 2002, Ashwin C Uthappa wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >>Just some updates on my iPlanet problems with SSL. For those who came > >>in late, a quick recap!! > >> > >>I intend to carry out SSL communication (NOT web transactions) between a > >>communication application and a engine. In the actual production > >>environment, I am supposed to create a shared object to be plugged into > >>iPlanet. When I start the iPlanet web server, during the Init Stage, I > >>fork a child process within which I invoke the communication methods > >>to establish communication with the engine. > >> > >>When I code the communication layer as an independent application ( > >>started from command line), it works perfectly. But when trying to fork > >>and call the functions from the iPlanet web server, it fails and the > >>child process crashes. The error I see at my engine side is > >> 1305:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake > >>failure:s23_lib.c:226: > >> > >>On snooping around the OpenSSL code, I found that the RAND_add() and > >>RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions (among other functions) fail at my > >>client's (communication layer) side. They do not return and they cause > >>the program to crash. Why this happens with iplanet and not with a > >>standalone application - that's my question?? Could there be something > >>in iPlanet's environment/settings/context that could be causing this > >>problem? > >> > > > >This is an indication of the name clash which has already been mentioned. > > > >There are two (at least) function with the same name in iPlanet and > >OpenSSL MD5_Update and SHA1_Update. The structures they expect are > >different and so when OpenSSL calls the iPlanet one it crashes. > > > >You may be able to use some compilation options to get your application > >to use the OpenSSL versions of the functions, or alternatively you > >can change the names of the offending functions, e.g. with a few > >#defines in the header files. > > > >Steve. > >-- > >Dr. Stephen Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~steve/ > >______________________________________________________________________ > >OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > >User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
