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Re: GnuTLS recv error (-9): A TLS packet with unexpected length was rece
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
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Re: GnuTLS recv error (-9): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received. - with Paypal Website Payment Pro |
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Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:21:59 +0100 |
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Joe Orton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > The problem is that GnuTLS does not distinguish the TCP closure case
>> > from this rather generic "unexpected length" error, as has been
>> > discussed on this list before. The OpenSSL API does expose this
>> > distinction.
>> How does openssl expose this distinction? Does it have a separate error for
>> unclean termination?
> Via the SSL_get_error() interface, see part on SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL.
Marking it a syscall error doesn't really point the fact of premature
termination.
Would having a special error code on this issue, such as
GNUTLS_E_PREMATURE_TERMINATION
make things better for applications?
regards,
Nikos
PS. To Zachary... A suggestion would be to ignore that error.