On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Loren Kirkby wrote:

> I'm using libcurl+OpenSSL in my application to do HTTPS transfers.
> Everything is working great, but when my application shuts down, the MSVC++
> memory tracker says that OpenSSL is leaking memory. After looking at the
> sample OpenSSL applications (e.g. ssltest.c), it seems that
> CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() is needed when shutting down. Adding this call
> to Curl_SSL_cleanup() fixes the memory leaks. Is there a reason
> CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() isn't being called?

Yes, there is a reason: I've never read anything anywhere about us having to
call that function. :-(

Coding with OpenSSL is mainly done by guessing, as the docs leave out most of
the details you'd want to learn...

> BTW, Thanks for a fantastic library!

Thanks for pointing out this flaw. This is now corrected in CVS.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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