[users@httpd] unable to read raw data from ssl enabled server

[Chidanand Gangur]

Hi all,

I have a sceneraio as shown in the diagram below.

+------------------------+     xml      +-------------------+
|            unix sock|<------------->|unix sock       |
|       PHP            |                 |   Back End    |
|                          |<---------+    |    Module       |
+------------------------+           |    |                     |
|                         |            |    +--------------------+     +-----------------+
|    Apache Server|            |                                |  MSIE 6      |
|      1.3.29         |            +------------------------------>|  Browser     |
|                        |              xml over ssl               |  playing flash
+---------------------+                                               |  application |
                                                                       +------------------+


I have apache 1.3.29 compiled with modssl and PHP. I have a flash screen which sends XML data to the back end module via PHP script. To achieve this I read the HTTP raw data in php script open unix socket connection to my back end module and send the XML for further processing . When PHP gets the response from the back end module I send it to flash and immediately close the socket connection to my backend module.

This the point where I have the problem , when i send the data to flash appln running in the browser i see that the falsh havent received any thing it says 0 bytes received.

 I tried to look in to SSL_request and engine logs where i get

[debug] OpenSSL: I/O error 23 bytes expected to write on BIO
[debug] OpenSSL: I/O error 23 bytes expected to write on BIO
[debug] OpenSSL: I/O error 23 bytes expected to write on BIO

[info] connection to child closed with standard shutdown

on further googling I found
http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC49

I did the approriate settings in my httpd.conf as suggested on the link given above but that too didnt help.

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
             nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
             downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

One thing to confirm is, there is nothing wrong in flash appln since it works very well on http with IE and with http/https on
 fire fox browser, hence I am suspecting this as some server side configuration issue. Can some one help me to solve this problem?

I would like to add one more point
On IE  https works fine that is the flash files on server gets loaded properly or if i have some static html page that too works fine.
I see the above problem only when i have some PHP to back end communication.

Thanks,

Chidanand Gangur
Pune.