curl-users
RE: HTTPS weirdos (with patch)
From: Cain Hopwood <cain_at_epage.com.au>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:29:48 -0000
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:29:48 -0000
> i sem to recall something about SSL message blocks being limited to 2^14
> bytes or somesuch. could that be related somehow?
It could have, but people (me included) pump much more than that with a
single OpenSSL call (like 100Kish). My guess is that there's an internal
OpenSSL mechanism to break the single large chunk into usable pieces and
it's that mechanism that's buggy.
L&K Cain
Received on 2001-02-10