NetSurf 3.11 has been released!

@chris

-- I will need to get back to you later on providing you a serial log output on my A1222+ system running Netsurf, I do not have an RS-232 cable.

-- Meanwhile I tried the https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_no_r.lha build.

-- It installs fine, then upon arriving at the welcome page, none of the links are able to fetch a page.

-- I tried the top right search bar, again same thing, any search criteria such as goolge, bbc, riscos, unable to fetch page.

-- If I was to type, www.google.co.uk in the address bar, the page does load fine.

-- If I search within google, its search results appears fine, but clicking on any of the links, unable to fetch page.

-- If I set frogfind as the default home page upon loading netsurf, (however it did lockup the entire computer requiring a restart) the page loads fine and I can search and click of any of its links, the website page itself loads fine albeit in a very simple text format without any fancy graphics.

-- I also tried the debug tool from: https://www.cy2.uk/ns_os4_dbg.zip and captured the ns.log for you for further review but I am not sure how to add the full ns log into the "" button or </> button at top of the reply button?

-- Thank you

@Chris

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I also tested your latest build...all sites that require SSL encryption do not work. The only site that worked was Amiga-News.

Log: https://nopaste.net/MsRQmTd2Mm

You can see the complete process in the log.

Hmm, OK, I need to go back to AmiSSL but with this new patch then!

Curl uses gethostbyname_r in the threaded and other resolver, so with this patch it should stop it using it regardless.

I'd like to get the threaded resolver working again though.

@boabster
You can use something like pastebin, but at this stage unless you're seeing some other problem it's not going to tell me anything I don't already know.

@Chris

This version works fine for me ...

NEW BUILD: https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_no_r.lha

This one reverts back to OpenSSL but removes any use of gethostbyname_r.

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MicroAmigaOne with IBM PPC 750 GX CPU
AmigaOS4.1 Final Edition Update 2

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redfox

Hmm....

OK, this one uses AmiSSL but not gethostbyname_r():

https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_amissl_no_r.lha

@Chris

Not sure if it helps in any way, but i stumbled upon this while looking for information regarding (un)supported features of OpenSSL/AmiSSL.

This is what i get while configuring ScummVM, which uses OpenSSL



gethostbyname_r is not supported (as it seems) amongst others.

So, this seems to be a general problem of our OpenSSL/AmiSSL port?

@Raziel

I think some people might be conflating 2 different issues. The gethostbyname_r issue only relates to libcurl resolving hostnames (Chris's latest Netsurf build is now linked against a libcurl that has that function disabled). Although libcurl uses either OpenSSL/AmiSSL for fetching SSL content, any SSL issue is unrelated to the hostname resolving issue. gethostbyname_r is not present in the OpenSSL/AmiSSL source.

The reason your configure script doesn't find gethostbyname_r is probably because you're using an old SDK. That function wasn't present in the included newlib library/headers until SDK 53.34, and not in the included Roadshow headers until SDK 54.16.

@Chris

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This build works very well at first, but NetSurf also loses its connection later on. If you wait long enough NetSurf will terminate later where it has lost the connection, you can see it in the video quite far at the end. Otherwise the build is very stable....

NetSurf Test ----> https://vimeo.com/1016136988?share=copy#t=0

This does not happen with iBrowse or Odyssey and at that time I also had a stable Internet connection.

@MickJT

my sdk is 54.16, so that cannot be it.

scummvm is using openssl, so if gethostbyname_r is not inside openssl, thats the reason its not found.

@Maijestro

When it eventually timed out did you get an error message? Can't see in the video as it processes the window close so any error doesn't stay on screen.

@Chris

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There is no error message when NetSurf terminates after the time-out. If I then restart NetSurf, everything is fine again and I can visit all my websites until the connection is lost again.

I can reproduce the whole thing every time....

@Chris

https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_amissl_no_r.lha

On my system, this one seems to take more time thinking before actually displaying the selected webpage.


Whereas the OpenSSL one https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_no_r.lha

seemed to be much quicker.

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redfox

@Maijestro

This is odd, I'd expect this behaviour with gethostbyname_r as per salass00's earlier comments.

Does it happen if you stick to non-https sites?

@Chris

Update ...

Assuming this one is the one released on 4 October ...

https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_amissl_no_r.lha

for me, the Google search seems to eventually give a list of items, but NetSurf appears to go to sleep if I click on any of the entries.

I thought the program was hanging every time and the only way I could recover was to reset my system.

However, this last time I just waited to see if anything would happen. After about 5 to 10 minutes, the window updated with the article I was wanting to view and NetSurf was awake again.

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redfox

@redfox

The slowness will be the AmiSSL build doesn't use the threaded resolver. I wouldn't expect it to be *that* slow though.

Need to work out how to fix the threaded resolver, or get libcares working.

@Chris

Isn't the threaded resolver working ok now (with _r disabled)? Did Netsurf's libcurl have the threaded resolver enabled previously, years ago (with different patches) ?

I thought netsurf_os4_amissl_no_r.lha had the threaded resolver enabled but just not using _r. I didn't personally test it though.

@redfox



Is that working without problems for you?

If that one has the threaded resolver enabled (but not using _r), then I would expect a version that uses AmiSSL should work fine too.

@Chris

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It only seems to happen with “HTTPS” websites. If you need logs about this, or I can do something else for you let me know.

@MickJT

The AmiSSL one doesn't have the threaded resolver enabled - for whatever reason it doesn't work.

I'm going to have a look at c-ares as I think I know what's wrong with it.

@Chris

Thanks for the latest couple releases!

While both (10/1 & 10/4) builds still complain about the
guigfx.lib at start up, both of them now are loading most of the
pages linked on the NetSurf "home" page.

I say "most" because, as others reported, just clicking on the
google link, froze up Netsurf with "loading" in the bottom
corner.

I also found that while the ArsTechnica main page loaded,
clicking on a link in that page also resulted in the same
frozen "loading" state.

in both cases, I didn't see anything appear over the serial
port reflecting a crash, etc.

I hope this helps.

Again, thanks for the updates!

PJS

@MickJT
@Chris

Assuming this one is build date 01 October,

OpenSSL version https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf_os4_no_r.lha


Yes, this version of NetSurf 3.12 (Dev) works well for me, with no problems encountered so far.

I am running the public version of AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2.

No betatest software.

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redfox