Re: [libmicrohttpd] Building libmicrohttpd-0.9.55 on RHEL5

[Evgeny Grin]

On 25.09.2017 9:55, microhttpd wrote:
> Den 2017-09-21 15:33, skrev Evgeny Grin:
>> On 20.09.2017 12:16, Svein Olav Bjerkeset wrote:
>>> I am trying to build libmicrohttpd-0.9.55 with support for https on
>>> RHEL5. As I can not even get the demo_https server to work (server demo
>>> which uses plain http, works as intended), there must be something wrong
>>> with libmicrohttpd itself or one or more of the libraries it uses.
>>>
>>> Running the demo_https server, it seems to start just fine. However when
>>> I try to use curl to connect, it just hangs for a long time after which
>>> it comes back with "curl: (52) Empty reply from server".
>>>
>>> I does not seem like the "generate_page" callback function is ever
>>> called. I have tried to add the following statement as the first
>>> statement, but I see no output:
>>>
>>>     printf ("U=%s, M=%s\n", url, method);
>>>
>>> Occasionally, I get a response, with part of the response headers
>>> garbled, indicating that memory was overwritten somewhere. In this case
>>> curl still hangs after receiving the response and I do get output from
>>> the printf-statement above.
>>>
>>> As RHEL5 are missing a lot of libraries, or have outdated versions, I
>>> have built most of the dependent libraries myself. Here is a list of the
>>> libraries I have built and linked with microhttpd, and the versions I
>>> used:
>>>
>>> gnutls: 3.6.0 (also tried 3.5.15 with same result)
>>> gcrypt: 1.8.0
>>> libgpg-error: 1.27
>>> p11-kit: 0.23.2
>>> tasn1: 4.12
>>> nettle: 3.3
>>> ffi: 3.2.1
>>> gmp: 6.1.2
>>>
>>> Any idea on where to start tracking down this issue?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Svein Olav Bjerkeset
>>
>> Hi Svein,
>>
>> First of all, could you use another name in email? Otherwise it may
>> confuse other users.
>>
>> Did you use curl on the same machine?
>> If you use curl came from RHEL5 repo than your curl could be outdated or
>> could be linked with outdated SSL lib.
>> As first step I suggest to check connection from another machine with
>> modern curl. Also try wget.
>>
>> Broken response headers may indicate broken TLS lib or broken TLS
>> decoding.
> 
> Sorry for the email name. It should be corrected now.

Still the same: microhttpd <address@hidden>

> I have tried both curl and whether, and they both fail. The results are
> the same for local and remote connections. I have tried from a RHEL 6.9
> server with modern curl/wget and it still fails.

Latest git contains some fixes for epoll modes.
Could you fetch source from official git on other platform (autoconf on
RHEL5 is too old), run "autoreconf -i && ./configure && make dist-gzip".
Then build from resulted tarball on your RHEL5 machine?

Most probably GnuTLS is not yet well polished on your machine.

For testing connectivity I'd recommend to use RHEL/CentOS 7 or latest
Debian. Also same platforms are recommended to fetch sources from git.

-- 
Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin

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