Problem with Trackbacks and SSL

[markus]

Hi,

being paranoid , I'm running my blog via SSL. When I created a post with a link to a previous post, the trackback engine delivered the following:

• Überprüfe https://tepin.aiki.de/blog/archives/4-Hardware.html auf mögliche Trackbacks...
Sende Trackback zu URI https://tepin.aiki.de/blog/comment.php? ... entry_id=4...
Notice: in /srv/www/tepin.aiki.de/blog/bundled-libs/PEAR.php on line 848

(To me, something seems missing in this message.) When I tryed some days ago to trackback from another (s9y) blog, it also failed, but I unfortunately do not remember the exact message - it was different, if that helps.

The SSL cert is signed by cacert.org and the machine running the blog (tepin) trusts them (unless PHP has another cert repository than the OS).

Is s9y (here: 1.0) just not capable of SSL or is the bug somewhere else?

Cheers and thanks for the fine software
Markus

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Do other trackbacks to other blogs work? It might be that your server is not allowing outgoing connections on port 80?

The "Notice" message come's from PHPs fsockopen() function. It sometimes happens when connections are not properly established, but since you already noticed that any error message is omitted, I don't really know where the problem of that exactly lies. But it has to do with PHP and the network connection, not actually serendipity itself.

Best regards,
Garvin

[markus]

Hi Garvin,

sorry for a late reply and thanks for your fast answer! Yes, other trackbacks do work and no, the server does not block outgoing connections to ports 80 and 443.

It is still not possible to tackback via ssl, and I found out something else s9y team might be interested in. The error mentioned above seems to stop the whole processing of a new article. E.g., tags entered into the 'Tagged Articles' plugin field get omitted, so it is not possible for me to tag articles that contain links to my own blog as they are https. Furthermore, if I edit and try to save such an article, all trackback requests will be sent again. Perhaps there is a way to expect such errors?

Cheers
Markus

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, maybe your PHP has no SSL option compiled in? In that case, you might want to install the "Manual Trackback" plugin. With that you can disable sending trackbacks to URLs that make your PHP stall.

Sadly my knowledge of the PEAR class is a bit limited, I really did not yet understand their connection handling concept and thus I'm currently not able to work around that. Help from developers would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
Garvin

[judebert]

I've done a lot of socket programming, but never in PHP. And I'm still trying to figure out this PEAR stuff. Sorry.

[garvinhicking]

Hi judebert!

No worries. But if you ever get down to it, tell me about it

Best regards,
Garvin