Thanks for the reply and apologies for the awkward description of the
problem.
I had moved the SSL initiation until after the exchange of the 1st clear
text request/reply but was getting errors, which prompted the original post.
Subsequently I discovered in the move I had swapped the SSL_CTX_new()
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 January, 2012 12:44
> There¹s a system I'm attempting to interface to that uses SSL, via the
> gsToolkit I believe, to protect its transmissions. However,
> it doesn't begin
> the protection until it exchanges