From: Mark Slater <lists@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T05:54:25+09:00
Subject: Segmentation Fault in httpclient 2.1.0

I've written a ruby script that connects to a web service running  
within our intranet via Soap4r. I developed the script on a Mac (OS  
10.4.10, ruby 1.8.6 patch 0, soap4r 1.5.7, httpclient 2.1.0, net-ssh  
1.1.2) and I have no problems on my machine. However when we deploy  
the script to the production environment (a linux box with the same  
ruby version and gems as I have on my development machine), we get  
random segmentation faults:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.0/lib/httpclient.rb:378
: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13) [i686-linux]

Aborted
-bash-2.05b$ echo $?
134

Here's the code where the seg fault occurs:
353  def load_cacerts
354    file = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'httpclient',  
'cacert.p7s')
355    if File.exist?(file)
356      require 'openssl'
357      dist_cert =<<__DIST_CERT__
...
377__DIST_CERT__
378      p7 = OpenSSL::PKCS7.read_smime(File.open(file) { |f| f.read })

The last line is where things die.

Has anyone else seen this problem? What version of OpenSSL should we  
be running for compatibility with Ruby's OpenSSL library?

Any suggests on how to fix this would be much appreciated, since we  
can't roll these scripts out with these errors.

Thank you,

Mark