"kaushik_vishwakarma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> hi,
>
>
> the specification of ssl says that in the record layer messages
> can get coalesced. But i did not see this happening in my test
> program. my test program had one server and one client. the server
> after accepting connection reads 16 kb of data at a time. The
> client sends two messages both more than 16 kb in size but not
> multiple of it. The messages are written one after the other
> simulteneously. If it get coalesced then while reading the second
> part of the first message should also contain some of the first
> part of the second message like what happends in normal tcp.
>
>
> Is this behaviour normal. I could not find any document which says
> this is guaranteed that the messages wont coalesce. Could anyone
> clear my doubt please.
While SSL CAN coalesce data, in general implementations don't coalesce
user writes, in order to avoid confused programmers :)
-Ekr
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