It's a very old system, I have:
perl v 5.8.8
Crypt::SSLeay 0.51
LWP::UserAgent 2.033
OpenSSL 0.9.8e

I am wary of major upgrades because every time I've done a big upgrade, I run into bugs in the upgrade software that cause some type of serious damage that takes hours or sometimes days to fix. (By "bugs" I don't mean crashes; I mean messages where I do exactly what the message tells me to do; but it turns out the message *really* meant something else, and "everybody knows" that you're supposed to do the other thing, instead of what the message actually tells you to do, but I follow the directions literally and end up backed into some catastrophic problem.)

However, regardless of whether or not I "should" upgrade, the original question remains: if www.google.com does not support SSLv3, why do the output debug messages keep referring to SSLv3? The repro without perl:

openssl s_client -connect www.google.com:443 -state | grep -i "ssl"

shows:

SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
depth=1 /C=US/O=Google Trust Services/CN=Google Internet Authority G3
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:0
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
SSL handshake has read 2450 bytes and written 447 bytes
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AES128-SHA
SSL-Session:

I see the line "TLSv1/SSLv3" and I've heard that TLS uses SSL certificates, so maybe these are the debug messages that you get when you are using TLS with SSLv3 certs. Is that probably it?

In reply to Re^2: if SSLv3 is disabled, why does LWP::UserAgent request indicate successful SSLv3 handshake? by bennetthaselton
in thread if SSLv3 is disabled, why does LWP::UserAgent request indicate successful SSLv3 handshake? by bennetthaselton

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