[QPID-4337] qpid-tools' SSL support for systems with python < 2.6 is broken

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.18
• Fix Version/s: 0.19
• Component/s: C++ Tools, Python Client

Environment

Linux with python release 2.4 installed (Centos 5)

• Assignee: Ken Giusti
• Reporter: Ken Giusti
• Created: 20/Sep/12 20:23
• Updated: 12/Mar/17 14:06
• Resolved: 21/Sep/12 15:05

Description

Since release 2.6, python's SSL support is based on OpenSSL. Prior to 2.6, it was based on a more-limited implementation.

It appears that this earlier implementation may fail to connect when the underlying socket is configured as non blocking, or configured with a timeout.

This causes some of the qpid tools to fail to connect when used with SSL. For example, qpid-config.

Also, the use of the older version of SSL's client-authentication appears to be broken.