I just upgraded to Debian Wheezy from Lenny (long story) and a few of my Perl packages didn't make the upgrade for some reason, among them Crypt::SSLeay (libcrypt-ssleay-perl).

I was unable to connect to my credit card payment gateway (Payflow Pro) using LWP until I installed libcrypt-ssleay-perl, and now it "works", but it takes 15-20 seconds to make the SSL connection due to the very unhelpful error message "error in unknown state":

    SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
    SSL_connect:unknown state
    (waiting 15-20 seconds...) #this comment is from waldo22
    SSL_connect:error in unknown state
    SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client hello A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
    SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A

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Here's a pastebin of the console from the actual request/response:

I should note that there was no delay with the previous version of LWP::UA, and that the request is clearly working, but with the unacceptable delay.

I have a feeling this has something to do with LWP changing the default behavior for certificate authorities and server certificiate verification:
lwp SSL validation
and possibly:
certificate verify failed

The PayflowPro Perl module is using Crypt::SSLeay via LWP::useragent.

Current versions of relevant libraries are:

PayflowPro    3101  (just upgraded from 2111, but same results)
libwww-perl              6.04-1
libcrypt-ssleay-perl    0.58-1
liblwp-protocol-https    6.03-1

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Obviously 15-20 seconds is way too long to wait to make an SSL connection, but without a more helpful error message, I don't know what to do.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to better debug this or to get more verbose output?

Thanks a bunch,

-Wes

In reply to Long delay with Crypt::SSLeay and LWP by waldo22

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