From f2c6964e324bce1113c90af0a09bc92c74f76aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Kohler <ivan@freeside.biz>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:11:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix intermittent 900 NET OR SSL error, RT#42648

---
 FS/FS/Mason.pm            | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 htetc/freeside-base2.conf |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/FS/FS/Mason.pm b/FS/FS/Mason.pm
index 2648ef98c..23031766c 100644
--- a/FS/FS/Mason.pm
+++ b/FS/FS/Mason.pm
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ if ( -e $addl_handler_use_file ) {
 
 } # end package HTML::Mason::Commands;
 
-=head1 SUBROUTINE
+=head1 SUBROUTINES
 
 =over 4
 
@@ -656,6 +656,35 @@ sub mason_interps {
 
 }
 
+=item child_init
+
+Per-process Apache child initialization code.
+
+Calls srand() to re-seed Perl's PRNG so that multiple children do not generate
+the same "random" numbers.
+
+Works around a Net::SSLeay connection error by creating and deleting an SSL
+context, so subsequent connections do not error out with a CTX_new (900 NET OR
+SSL ERROR).
+
+=cut
+
+sub child_init {
+  #my ($pool, $server) = @_; #the child process pool (APR::Pool) and the server object (Apache2::ServerRec).
+
+  srand();
+
+  #{
+    use Net::SSLeay;
+    package Net::SSLeay;
+    initialize();
+    my $bad_ctx = new_x_ctx();
+    while ( ERR_get_error() ) {}; #print_errs('CTX_new');
+    CTX_free($bad_ctx);
+  #}
+
+}
+
 =back
 
 =head1 BUGS
diff --git a/htetc/freeside-base2.conf b/htetc/freeside-base2.conf
index 3eef50cad..1504266cf 100644
--- a/htetc/freeside-base2.conf
+++ b/htetc/freeside-base2.conf
@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@ PerlModule HTML::Mason
 PerlSetVar MasonArgsMethod CGI
 PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
 
-PerlChildInitHandler "sub { srand }"
-
 PerlRequire "%%%MASON_HANDLER%%%"
 
+PerlChildInitHandler FS::Mason::child_init
+
 #Locale::SubCountry
-#
 AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
 
 <Directory %%%FREESIDE_DOCUMENT_ROOT%%%>
-- 
2.11.0