My $0.02 : *always* operate in non blocking mode. The code may be slightly more complex but will *always* work better.
goven that statement, the problem is still relevant, since the connecting end cold just stay open forecever, eating up your sockets, so you have just pushed the timeout to a different section of code. i would recoomend a different sort of timeout, since for slow connections you could have the handshake take a while. You would wnat to timeout on netwok inactivity, not handshake time. Tim --- "Barry, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric is correct. It's the responsibility of the > application to control timeouts on the socket. > > Be aware, though, that some applications ported from > UNIX make the assumption that a SIGALRM will cause > outstanding recv() calls to complete. This is not > the case on other platforms such as OpenVMS and > presumably Windows where the C run-time library is > not implemented in the kernel. Your timeout > mechanism needs a way to cause the recv() call > within SSL_Accept to complete or to otherwise break > the socket connection. > > Rick Barry > Hewlett-Packard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SSL_accept hang > > > "Skip Rhudy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We use OpenSSL on in a Win2k environment. The > latest code we have is > > 0.9.6h. > > > > > > > > If SSL_accept is called in blocking i/o mode, and > the client on the > > other end never initiates a handshake, or never > sends any data at all, > > the SSL_accept() call never returns. > It's your responsibility to put a timeout here. > > -Ekr > > -- > [Eric Rescorla > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] > http://www.rtfm.com/ > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
