Bug 207881

Summary: Konquerer is unable to connect to https sites on x86_64 systems.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Wade Mealing <wmealing>
Component: kdelibsAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
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Version: 3.0CC: rkhadgar
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add /lib64 to the search path at compile time none

Description Wade Mealing 2006-09-25 04:12:36 UTC 
Description of problem:

Konquere is unable to connect to https sites.  I've done a little hunting, and I
believe that this is because /lib64 is not in the paths to search for the ssl
libraries.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kdelibs-3.1.3-6.10

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1 Install RHEL3 U8 with kde and konquerer on a x86_64 system.
2 Start konquerer, visit https://www.redhat.com
3 wait for the page load to fail.
  
Actual results:

Note that it is unable to open any https site, not just www.redhat.com

Expected results:

Konquerer should load the https page and the secure site should be shown.

Additional info:

There is a work around, but its nasty and not user friendly.  This bug does not
appear in RHEL4 GA or above.

Start Konquerer

Visit https://www.redhat.com/ , ( confirm failure )
Settings -> Configure Konquerer
Choose Crypto in the list
Choose "OpenSSL" tab.
Enter the default path as /lib64/
Choose test ( confirm failure )
Choose OK.
Visit https://www.redhat.com/ , ( confirm failure )
Close konquerer.

Log out.
Log in.

Settings -> Configure Konquerer
Choose Crypto in the list
Choose "OpenSSL" tab.
Enter the default path as /lib64/
Choose test ( confirm success )
Choose OK.
Visit https://www.redhat.com/ , ( confirm success )

There are two bugs show in the above test, the first is that it does not
defaultly search /lib64/ for the openssl libs within
kdelibs-3.5.3/kio/kssl/kopenssl.cc ,  The second is that the session does not
seem to update the ssl search path on runtime.

This is about the first.

Attached is a patch that I think will fix the problem, however I have not been
able to get KDE to compile correctly on the many strange machines that I own.
Comment 1 Wade Mealing 2006-09-25 04:15:57 UTC 
Created attachment 137028 [details]
add /lib64 to the search path at compile time

This adds /lib64 as a default search path at compile time.  This is untested,
but I believe it should work.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 18:41:05 UTC 
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
 
If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
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information on how this bug is affecting you.