[xmlsec] more error handling concerns

[Aleksey Sanin]

I've never seen such problem but I use OpenSSL 0.9.7. Sorry, but I probably
will not be able to help you with this :(

Aleksey

Moultrie, Ferrell (ISSAtlanta) wrote:

>I'm using the latest released version, 0.9.6g. We looked at the 0.9.7
>version but it was still in testing and that seemed like not such a good
>plan for us right now given the relative stability of the 0.9.6 release
>series. Just setting breakpoints in OpenSSL on the push and clear
>methods, it looks like it's not an uncommon coding practice so I'd guess
>it's not going to be trivial for them to change.
>Ferrell
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aleksey Sanin [mailto:aleksey at aleksey.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:02 PM
>To: Moultrie, Ferrell (ISSAtlanta)
>Cc: xmlsec at aleksey.com
>Subject: Re: [xmlsec] more error handling concerns
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>Which OpenSSL version do you use? Probably it's worth to inform
>OpenSSL guys about this.
>
>Aleksey
>
>Moultrie, Ferrell (ISSAtlanta) wrote:
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>>Aleksey:
>> One difficulty I'm having with the new error handler and using the
>>OpenSSL error stack is that the OpenSSL crypto library frequently uses
>>the error stack to capture "expected" errors. When one of those occurs,
>>it calls ERR_clear() which removes not only the OpenSSL error info but
>>any previously stored xmlsec errors -- which I haven't even had a
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>chance
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>>to see yet! The only option appears to be to override the default
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>xmlsec
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>>error callback -- but that gets us back to needing thread local storage
>>in the application, etc. Sigh.
>>Ferrell
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