Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply. I was able to fix it a while ago. And your
guess is correct. My port number was getting messed up. And extra
thinks for the tip on the libraries. :)

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Dave
Thompson<dave.thomp...@princetonpayments.com> wrote:
>> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Rij
>> Sent: Thursday, 23 July, 2009 21:17
>
>> I have a simple client operating in blocking mode. When I try
>> to connect to the server, I get the error:
>> error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
>>
> Sounds like your server is not responding with valid SSL.
> Are you sure you are connecting to the correct server and port?
>
> Can you try connecting with openssl s_client -debug?
> Does it get data that looks like some other protocol
> (at best, a readable one)? Maybe the server requires
> STARTTLS or similar interaction BEFORE starting TLS?
>
>> Anybody aware of this error? I had previously written both a
>> blocking and non-blocking client with help of people from
>> this forum (most notably David). Now, the code doesn't run.
>> Here's a snapshot of the code.
>>
>>               SSL_library_init();
>>               ERR_load_BIO_strings();
>>               SSL_load_error_strings();
>>               OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();
>
> Asides: BIO errstrings are (also) loaded by SSL_load_error_strings,
> and if you're (only) doing SSL you shouldn't need any algorithms
> not included by SSL_library_init. But these (should) do no harm.
>
>
>
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