On Wed, Apr 01, 2009, Mark Laubach wrote:

> Hi,
> I looked through the archives and didn't find a similar message.
> 
> Issue: ssl_connect() now fails with error to same server when
> changing to 0.9.8j (or 0.9.8k) from any previous version.
> 
> Server: Tomcast v6018, using self-signed, also tried with Versign-signed
> 
> Fail message test message decoded to ascii: "EOF was observed that
> violates the protocol. The client probably provided invalid
> authentication information."
> 
> NOTE: we are using gSoap v2.7.6c and have asked them. However, we tracked
> the issue down to ssl_connect() just behaving differently and thought we'd
> ask here also.
> 
> Questions/Help: what changed in 0.9.8j that would cause this?  Can't find
> any real mentioned.  Any clues to get around this problem?
> 

Possibly TLS extensions. You can turn these off at compile time or runtime.
See previous discussions for more info.

They were enabled by default in 0.9.8j onwards which chokes some broken
servers (including ancient versions of OpenSSL).

Steve.
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