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Changes for version 1.49 - 2012-09-25

  • Fixed problem where on some platforms test t/local/07_tcpecho.t would bail out if it could not bind port 1212. Now now tries a number of ports to bind to until successful. Improvements to unsigned casting contributed by Reini Urban. Improvements to Net::SSLeay::read to make it easier to use with non-blocking IO: contributed by James Marshall: It modifies Net::SSLeay::read() to return the result from SSL_read() as the second return value, if Net::SSLeay::read() is called in list context. Its behavior should be unchanged if called in scalar or void context. This result code seems to be required for full support of non-blocking I/O, since users need to handle SSL_ERR_WANT_READ, SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE, etc. Fixed a problem where t/local/kwalitee.t fails with Module::CPANTS::Analyse 0.86. Patch from Paul. Fixed a number of typos patched by Giles. Fixed a compiler warning from Compiling with gcc-4.4 and -Wall, patched by Giles. Fixed problems with get_https4: documentation was wrong, $header_ref was not correctly set and $server_cert was not returned. Fixed a problem that could cause a Perl exception about no blength method on undef. Reported by "Stephen J. Smith via RT". https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79309 Added documentation about how to mitigatxe various SSL/TLS vulnerabilities. Fixed problem reported by Mike Doherty: SSL_MODE_* are defined in ssl.h, and should be available as constants, but I do not see them listed in constants.h

Modules

Perl extension for using OpenSSL
Perl module that lets SSL (HTTPS) sockets be handled as standard file handles.