M2Crypto hangs on this URL

[John Nagle]

John Nagle wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>> There's something strange about this URL:
>>
>> "https://sagar310.pontins.com/sraep/"
>>
>> It hangs Firefox 2; there's no short timeout, the web page just gets
>> stuck in initial load for about ten minutes.  Then
>> "The connection to sagar310.pontins.com was interrupted while the page 
>> was loading."
>>
>> It hangs M2Crypto 0.17 on both Linux and Windows, for at least 4 hours.
> 
>     Correction: Linux is still hung at 5 hours, but Windows timed out
> after about 15 minutes.
> 
Further update: M2Crypto on Windows now hung on that URL for hours.  Last time,
the connection apparently failed and the program got unstuck.

It's waiting for something to happen inside SSL connection setup.

				John Nagle