M2Crypto hangs on this URL

[Martin P. Hellwig]

John Nagle wrote:
> Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
>> John Nagle wrote:
>>> John Nagle wrote:
>>>> John Nagle wrote:
>>>>> There's something strange about this URL:
>>>>>
>>>>> "https://sagar310.pontins.com/sraep/"
> ...
>> It looks to me like the SSL handshake is not done properly from the 
>> server side.
>>
>> Compare the output of:
>> openssl s_client -host sagar310.pontins.com -port 443 -debug 
>> -showcerts -msg
>>
>> With (for example):
>> openssl s_client -host www.google.com -port 443 -debug -showcerts -msg
> 
>   OpenSSL is clearly not happy with that site.  But it doesn't hang.
> 
> openssl s_client -host sagar310.pontins.com -port 443 -debug -showcerts  
> -msg
> 
> eventually prints
> 
> "Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain)"
> That's weird, because there's a Verisign certificate in the chain.
> That site is somehow mishandling its certs.
> 
> My problem, though, is that M2Crypto 0.17 is hanging for hours to days
> on those connections.
> 
>                     John Nagle

Well it hanged when I tried it, however the site now does return 
something when using Firefox, so I assume somebody is doing some work 
there or the server decided to do something else.

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