[Lynx-dev] Problems With A User/Password Login Submit

[John Red-Horse]

Dear Pros,

On one of the systems that I use on my ISP's network, I'm having a
problem logging into my account at wsj.com via the https-savvy form.

Let me provide some background.

One is running a Linux OS (this is the system that fails to make the
connection properly):

 Linux chishio 2.4.29-rc1 #1 SMP Fri Jan 7 16:41:59 MST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

with lynx version (as reported from https://www.gnutls.org:5555/):

 Client's browser version: Lynx/2.8.5rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1
 GNUTLS/1.0.16

 Cipher key size: 128

the other is SunOS:

 SunOS yagi 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine

 Client's browser version: Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1
 OpenSSL/0.9.4

 Cipher key size: 192

The WSJ login script appears to be expecting a TLS encryption key (as
best as I can figure from the trace file) of a specific size.

This is a portion of the trace for the failed, linux version of lynx:

----------------------begin trace snippet----------------------
                Lynx Trace Log (2.8.5rel.1)

User message: Trace ON!
GETCH: Got 0x103.
LYReadCmdKey(0) ->Up Arrow (0x100)
GETCH: Got 0x78.
LYReadCmdKey(0) ->x (0x78)
SubmitForm
  link_name=
  link_value=Log In

[snip]

Looking up users2.wsj.com
Making HTTPS connection to users2.wsj.com
TCP: Error 115 in `SOCKET_ERRNO' after call to this socket's first connect()
+failed.
        Operation now in progress
TCP: Error 115 in `SOCKET_ERRNO' after call to this socket's first select()
+failed.
        Operation now in progress
Retrying connection without TLS.
HTParse: aName:`https://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/submitLogin'
   relatedName:`'
   want: host
HTParse:      result:`users2.wsj.com'
Looking up users2.wsj.com
Making HTTPS connection to users2.wsj.com
TCP: Error 115 in `SOCKET_ERRNO' after call to this socket's first connect()
+failed.
        Operation now in progress
TCP: Error 115 in `SOCKET_ERRNO' after call to this socket's first select()
+failed.
        Operation now in progress
HTTP: Unable to complete SSL handshake for
+'https://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/submitLogin', SSL_connect=0, SSL error stack
+dump follows
HTTP: SSL: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
----------------------end trace snippet----------------------

and this is a portion of the trace from the SunOS edition that does
connect correctly:

----------------------begin trace snippet----------------------

                Lynx Trace Log (2.8.4rel.1)

User message: Trace ON!
GETCH: Got 0xa.
LYReadCmdKey(0) ->
 (0xa)
SubmitForm
  link_name=
  link_value=Log In

[snip]

Looking up users2.wsj.com
HTParseInet: parsing `users2.wsj.com'.
LYGetHostByName: parsing `users2.wsj.com'.
End of LYGetHostByName: 2dc4c4 { h_name = 2dc4d8 "users2.wsj.com",
         h_aliases = 2dc4f0 { 0x0 },
         h_addrtype = 2, h_length = 4,
         h_addr_list = 2dc4e8 { 2dcdf4 "206.157.193.72", 0x0 } }
LYGetHostByName: Resolved name to a hostent.
HTParseInet: Parsed address as port 443, IP address 206.157.193.72
Making HTTPS connection to users2.wsj.com
TCP: Error 150 in `SOCKET_ERRNO' after call to this socket's first connect()
+failed.
        Operation now in progress
TCP: Error 150 in `SOCKET_ERRNO' after call to this socket's first select()
+failed.
        Operation now in progress
Secure 128-bit TLSv1/SSLv3 (RC4-SHA) HTTP connection

----------------------end trace snippet----------------------

It'd really be nice if someone could show me what the issue is so that I
could go to the sysadmins and tell them the fix...

many thanks,
john