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Re: libcurl/openssl crashes when remote site partially goes down

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:36:39 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Magnus Cederlöf wrote:

> I have an application with libcurl/openssl that makes an HTTP POST to a
> remote machine over HTTPS. This remote machine has stunnel + a special HTTP
> server (without SSL support). If the HTTP server on the remote machine goes
> down, but stunnel is still up and running, libcurl/openssl in my application
> crashes (makes an exit).

libcurl returns, that's not a crash...

> When stunnel has been started but there is nothing at the other end of the
> SSL tunnel, libcurl/openssl will make an exit with the following printout:
> * SSL read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), errno 104
> * Empty reply from server
> * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
> * Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)
> * Closing connection #0

What would you expect libcurl to do when it sends a HTTP request and it gets
nothing back? I don't see the error here...!

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Received on 2008-01-17