On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Alex Hristov wrote:

> I'm trying to use libcurl within a dynamic library function to submit an
> XML request over https, but am consistently getting core dumps during the
> SSL handshaking (see below).
>
> I've tried using curl 7.10.3 and 7.10.4 with OpenSSL 0.9.6i. The code seems
> to work OK when ran as part of a stand-alone executable, but the problem
> occurs when executed as .so plugin.

Could it be that you're not using curl_global_init() and thus inits the SSL
stuff multiple times? This is clearly involving OpenSSL...

> Also, I'm using OpenSSL to establish SSL-encrypted connections to LDAP
> (based on LDAP C SDK) from within the same plugin, and that works OK.

And is that also initing the SSL stuff?

> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, "/dev/urandom");

This isn't necessary, this is made by default.

> #0 0xfc87eb84 in ssl23_connect (s=0x14abba8) at s23_clnt.c:144
> 144 if (cb != NULL) cb(s,SSL_CB_HANDSHAKE_START,1);

Uh, this looks really bad. Is this a callback pointer gone wild?

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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