[openssl-users] Behaviour facing a broken OCSP responder

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Mon Sep 14 20:06:53 UTC 2015


> The documentation does not seem too clear about what the behaviour
> exactly is when OpenSSL deals with a broken OCSP responder.  For instance,
> one that would send an OK without any contents.  We call openssl from an
> application and would like to know what is returned in such a case, or in the
> case of any broken responder.

Broken can mean so many things.  You included an example.

Are you talking about the command-line?  It would be great if someone sent in a patch that standardized and documented exit codes, like 0 for got a "good" response, "1" for got a "bad" response, and 10 for got an unparseable response"


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