Hi list, currently I'm using
----- CONN_STRING="$(${PATH_TO_OPENSSL} s_client -connect ${HOST_IP}:${PORT} -nbio -pause < /dev/null 2>&1)" to connect to a remote SSL-server to get the connection string for processing it with echo "${CONN_STRING}" | ${PATH_TO_OPENSSL} x509 -noout -dates | grep "notAfter")" to get the expiration date of the certificate. ------ That works pretty fine for most of the ssl hosts but sometimes openssl gets struck and doesen't proceed farer than: CONNECTED(00000003) turning on non blocking io write R BLOCK openssl then only times out by the time out for connections by the OS. ->Is there any (undocumented) command line option for openssl s_client to specify a time out (e.g. -timeout sec)? ->Otherwise I would like to ask to start a dicussion for integrating such a feature into openssl s_client. Please reply cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I haven't subscribed for this list. I would appreciate any feedback... Thank you & kind regards, B. Courtin ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]