On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Arnaud Compan wrote:

> I think I have encountered the same problem. It happens when you have
> multiple threads doing HTTPS requests simultaneously.

Guys. You talk very low-level libcurl talk. We have the curl-library mailing
list setup especially for that. You'll reach many more fellow libcurl
programmers there.

I'm cc'ing this reply over there and I trust you take follow-ups to that list
(only).

> The problem is that in cURL, this initialisation is protected by a static
> global variable (ssl_seeded in lib/ssluse.c). When many threads start
> requests at the same time, they all check the ssl_seeded value and they all
> call the random_the_seed() function. What I have done is to toggle the
> initial value of ssl_seeded to TRUE and to ensure myself that OpenSSL is
> correctly seeded before doing any request (call RAND_screen() for example on
> Windows). It's not a very good patch but it works.

Hm. Would it suffice for your case if we made the iniy variable a true global?
Or do you have any other suggestions on how to fix this problem the best
possible way?

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