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.
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.
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