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  • SGaistS SGaist

    Looking for something else, I stumble on this bug of Curl which I wonder if it relates to the problem at end.

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    @SGaist said in QSslSocket Behaviour Linux vs macOS (possibly LibreSSL incompatibilities?):

    bug of Curl

    I doubt it: the bug seems to address Yosemite; my issues are for one: on High Sierra and for two: consistent over various platforms (OpenSuSE, Ubuntu; Mac).

    Besides - why curl? I am not knowingly using curl for that project. Is it somehow used by Qt under the hood?

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      @SGaist said in QSslSocket Behaviour Linux vs macOS (possibly LibreSSL incompatibilities?):

      bug of Curl

      I doubt it: the bug seems to address Yosemite; my issues are for one: on High Sierra and for two: consistent over various platforms (OpenSuSE, Ubuntu; Mac).

      Besides - why curl? I am not knowingly using curl for that project. Is it somehow used by Qt under the hood?

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      Hello.. as a follow up: I am not aware of the changes that took place under the hood in Qt 5.12.

      However, the issues as described apparently are fixed now; i.e. I am now using Qt 5.12.0 as provided/updated using the Qt Maintenance Tool.

      In more detail: I had to use the custom compiled Qt 5.10.0 in order to be able to connect to my QSsl - based development server under macOS.
      With the latest update to Qt 5.12.0 everything works as intended out of the box, no custom Qt/SSL compilation required any more.

      Thx for fixing this!

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        Glad it's working now and thanks for the feedback !

        Additonal note, I never wrote that this was a curl problem or bug that was affecting your application. Only that the bug report I found could give some additonal clues to look into to fix your problem.

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        • SGaistS SGaist

          Glad it's working now and thanks for the feedback !

          Additonal note, I never wrote that this was a curl problem or bug that was affecting your application. Only that the bug report I found could give some additonal clues to look into to fix your problem.

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          @SGaist Actually the post above may have been a bit premature. Not sure what is going on: I updated 2 machines to Qt 5.12.0.

          On my workstation, it is working as intended and described in the previous post.

          Since I assumed the issues have been fixed I also updated my Macbook only to find out the failed handshake still occurs.

          Currently I am in the process of investigating what is going on - mentioned computers installations are very similar. All I know for now is that the handshake failures occur only on one computer with standard Qt installation.
          I suspect the cause is somehow tied to libssl.a/libcrypto.a, perhaps different ssl version or something like that.

          I'll keep you advised if I find out what's going on

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            The one problem I can see is that OpenSSL is not used on macOS since a few Qt versions. Qt use the SecureTransport framework from macOS. You can still use OpenSSL though but you have to build Qt yourself for that as well as get a recent version of OpenSSL.

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            • SGaistS SGaist

              The one problem I can see is that OpenSSL is not used on macOS since a few Qt versions. Qt use the SecureTransport framework from macOS. You can still use OpenSSL though but you have to build Qt yourself for that as well as get a recent version of OpenSSL.

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              @SGaist I know - I did compile Qt with OpenSSL 1.0.2o a couple of months ago (Qt 5.10.0).
              Unfortunately later versions Qt failed to compile using this config - never figured out why; for the lack of time I just went ahead using mentioned custom compiled version.

              Yesterday I randomly checked if my server compiles/works using 5.12.0 - and to my surprise it did (on my workstation).
              It still doesn't on the Macbook what puzzles me...

              otool -L indicates everything is similar. The binary compiled on the workstation also does not work on the notebook - so clearly some dynamically linked library causing this. If only I knew which one

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                Any difference of macOS versions ?

                Any hint from the logs on the system ?

                Just in case, IIRC, since 5.10 Qt supports also OpenSSL 1.1

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                • SGaistS SGaist

                  Any difference of macOS versions ?

                  Any hint from the logs on the system ?

                  Just in case, IIRC, since 5.10 Qt supports also OpenSSL 1.1

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                  @SGaist Nope. Same OS version, same Qt version... hence my surprise. I tried OpenSSL 1.1, but it seems incompatible with earlier versions as well as with the SSL classes in JDK, which my clients use. So no option for now

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                    OpenSSL 1.1 requires a different backend. The 1.1 release broke API and ABI compatibility with the 1.0 release, hence you have to do a specific build of Qt or any library/application using OpenSSL.

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                    • SGaistS SGaist

                      OpenSSL 1.1 requires a different backend. The 1.1 release broke API and ABI compatibility with the 1.0 release, hence you have to do a specific build of Qt or any library/application using OpenSSL.

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                      @SGaist I did a fresh macOS install using a VM and can confirm the issue is resolved in stock macOS High Sierra using XCode 9.4.1, Command Line Tools 10.1 for High Sierra and standard Qt 5.12.0 installation.

                      Guess I have to find some path/ssl lib or similar getting in the way on my Macbook, but this should not be any of your concern.

                      Again, thanks for support.

                      Issue solved.

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                        You're welcome !

                        Then please mark the thread as solved using the "Topic Tools" button so other forum users may know a solution has been found :)

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                        • SGaistS SGaist

                          You're welcome !

                          Then please mark the thread as solved using the "Topic Tools" button so other forum users may know a solution has been found :)

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                          @SGaist Done!

                          Fyi: did not find what was wrong; after a clean install everything is working as intended.

                          Thx

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                            Software mysteries... You may have gremlins playing with your machine ;-)

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                            • SGaistS SGaist

                              Software mysteries... You may have gremlins playing with your machine ;-)

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                              @SGaist Yeh, pretty likely :-)

                              Checked every single dylib, libcrypto.* libssl.*, but no luck. Reinstalling took me half the time in comparison to investigating the issue...

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