Re^3: HTTP error response code 500 using LWP::UserAgent on one site, but not on any other

[aitap]

You need to write a filter expression. In your case it should look like http && ip.addr == <server's IP address> (see example).

[ted.byers]

progress of sorts: I have learned, using Wireshark, that the failure happens at the server, in the process of the hand-shaking between client and server involved in the establishment of an SSL connection. My script sends the usual hello message, and normally the other servers I connect to send back their own hello message. This one does not. The diaglog ends with my script sending it's first hello message to the server.

My challenge right now is two fold. 1) How to get wireshark to dump all the data it has collected (subject to my display filter) to a text file, so that I can send it to the tech guys at the company that owns the server. 2) How to set the level of SSL debugging in the SSL system used by LWP.

Thanks.

Ted

[Anonymous Monk]

use IO::Socket::SSL qw(debug3);

Also, http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Crypt::SSLeay#SSL_diagnostics_and_Debugging lists $ENV{HTTPS_DEBUG} = 1;

[ted.byers]

Thanks. That was helpful. But it raises a couple puzzles.

1) I get the following output:

DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1645: new ctx 45510240
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:363: socket not yet connected
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:365: socket connected
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:383: ssl handshake not started
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:446: Net::SSLeay::connect -> -1
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1320: SSL connect attempt failed with unkn
+own error error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)

DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:452: fatal SSL error: SSL connect attempt 
+failed with unknown error error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1320: IO::Socket::INET configuration faile
+d error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)

DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1682: free ctx 45510240 open=45510240
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:1690: OK free ctx 45510240

How do I determine why this low level library is unable to complete the usual SSL hand-shaking only with this server (It succeeds with every other server I have tried)

2) The cdirective fails on my workstation, on which the IO::Socket::SSL package is not installed. But, while the version of Perl on the servers is 5.14 or later, that on my workstation is 5.12. What would LWP be using for SSL on my workstation? I suspect some subtle difference between what was used with Perl 5.12 and that used with 5.14 or 5.16 may be responsible for the observed difference in behaviour. How would I determine this (and get similar debug information on my workstation that I am now getting on the two servers?

Thanks

Ted

[ted.byers]

Thanks. That looks like it would help. I'll give it a try and report back.

Thanks

Ted