Thanks for the tips. I thought this seemed strange, but it was the only culprit I could produce. I had previously tried reinstalling the binaries and had no success. I decided to try again because I think it was the "light" installed I tried the second time. I did the full install and it seems to be working again. Thanks for your help.
-- Best regards, Ben Dimick bendim...@verizon.net Sunday, January 11, 2009, 10:05:29 PM, you wrote: > OpenSSL is a library and, as such, doesn't come with its own installer > (at least not the official distribution), so question is where / what > you ran to 'install and UNinstall OpenSSL'. > On Win32/64 platforms, the problem you describe generally stems from > some uninstaller (for application XYZ) deleting the shared > libeay32.dll / ssleay32.dll binary files, which form the core of the > [dynamic] OpenSSL library. > To get those two DLLs back (if they have gone to Heaven indeed: search > your system drive!), you'll need to recreate those DLLs (if you built > them from source) or get them from a source/site you trust not to > provide tampered DLLs. > Sometimes the easiest way out is to reinstall a tiny application whose > installer places those two DLLs in the proper directory again (98% of > cases: directory = %SystemRoot%\system32\ ). Yet you see: this is > where I wave my hands: YMMV. And watch for the proper version being > installed again then; preferably the latest stable 0.9.8. (0.9.8j) >> I found this odd, but I haven't yet found a way to fix it. Is this >> something easy I've simply missed or something more serious? > I'd say that's pretty serious. A definite case of 'whoops!' > Alas, Win [un]installers have a hard time to detect if the DLLs they > install are shared with other applications and should be uninstalled > or not when the app is uninstalled. (Did I say the 'crufty' word yet > while referring to this OS?) > Caveat: the above, of course, assumes your problem is not due to that > other 2% of causes. ;-) > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ben Dimick <bendim...@verizon.net> wrote: >> I hope I'm coming to the right place for this. I installed OpenSSL >> on my Vista box and found after I uninstalled that SSL no longer >> worked on any of my apps besides Firefox (https on I.E., WebEx, etc). >> I found this odd, but I haven't yet found a way to fix it. Is this >> something easy I've simply missed or something more serious? >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Ben Dimick >> bendim...@verizon.net >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >> User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org >> Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
