On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Boyle Owen wrote:

> First off, you might be better posting this on the apache list
> (http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html) since I think this primarily a
> server issue (or maybe mod_ssl) - not really openSSL...

Thanks.  I'll go there today.

> What is happening is that the two requests are arriving simultaneously but
> that the response to the 408 request takes 5 minutes to be logged.
>
> This all means that the second request (leading to the 408) must be
> requesting a real CGI program on your server. Furthermore, the request is
> framed such that it causes the program to get stuck or in a loop or otherwise
> take longer than 5 minutes to respond.

That all makes a lot of sense... the problem is, the request is logged as a
single dash "-" where the filename would be, so it doesn't look like the
request is for a legitimate script.

> PS the "GET_CLIENT_MASTER_KEY:key arg too long" message looks like the trap
> against the buffer-overflow exploit in 0.9.6g. But this is being trapped and
> so I think you are safe against it.

That in a way is bad news because I'm left without an answer still (hehe)...

I'll start looking towards apache instead of openssl next, thanks for the reply.

Dan.


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