TLS connections may timeout early?

Firefox implements hard coded timeout for handshake with TLS servers that never answer. Right now it's 25 second without chance to change. Every timeout leads to msg about connection reset. Firefox resets itself and happily report about connection reset. Moreover logic of timeout broken completely and incompatible with Tor. See source code, file nsNSSIOLayer.cpp Suggested fixes proposed at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754356 Only solution is to remove timeout.

What happen if really connect to server that never answer ServerHello? It's another story incompatible with current timeouts. Lets to remove and to code something new.

added component::firefox patch issues owner::mikeperry priority::medium resolution::fixed status::closed tbb-usability type::defect labels

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to invalid

Trac:
Resolution: invalid to N/A
Status: closed to reopened

Trac:
Summary: Save users, remove TLS timeout logic to We could apply a Firefox patch to remove the hard-coded 25s TLS timeout
Priority: major to normal

Can't reproduce it with TBB's Firefox 10ESR.

Do we hit this or not?

Trac:
Status: reopened to needs_information
Summary: We could apply a Firefox patch to remove the hard-coded 25s TLS timeout to TLS connections may timeout early?
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-usability added

Bug ​https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754356 was fixed. Target Milestone: mozilla27. Closing.

Trac:
Status: needs_information to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed

closed