From ef8be0133d5ea643d6d41ad48edcfe97b69a9d1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John <ebusd@ebusd.eu>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 16:49:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] workaround for potentially unusable SSL context

---
 src/lib/utils/httpclient.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib/utils/httpclient.cpp b/src/lib/utils/httpclient.cpp
index 93fca1dd..c89e8e9e 100755
--- a/src/lib/utils/httpclient.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/utils/httpclient.cpp
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ SSLSocket* SSLSocket::connect(const string& host, const uint16_t& port, bool htt
     }
     bio = BIO_new_ssl_connect(ctx);
     if (isError("new_ssl_conn", bio != nullptr)) {
+      // in this case the ctx seems to be in an invalid state and it never comes out of that again on its own
+      SSL_CTX_free(ctx);
+      ctx = nullptr;
       break;
     }
     BIO_set_info_callback(bio, bioInfoCallback);