I've never really dealt with signals before, but I will definitely look into it. Thanks for the heads up. Any idea if there is a way to circumvent this in a cross-platform nature?
Dusty -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:31 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: SSL_write() crashes Chances are, you received a SIGPIPE. If not caught, that's a fatal signal. (SIGPIPE occurs when you try to write to a socket that has been closed by the other end.) -Kyle H On 2/22/06, Dusty Hendrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We currently have an SSL client/server setup that uses a basic "send > request, receive response" architecture. In one scenario, we did something > similar to the following: > > ----------------------------- > Client: > > 1. Send request > 2. Delete connection > > Server: > > 1. Wait for connection > 2. Process request > 3. Send response > ----------------------------- > > The issue here was that the client never tried to receive a response (since > it was unnecessary) and simply deleted the connection. However, the server > was trying to send a response, even though the client closed the connection. > We expected the SSL_write() function to handle such a scenario, returning an > error code or something similar. However, it simply crashed. The last line > of code that executes is the following: > > > int ret = SSL_write( ssl, &buffer[ bytesWritten ], length - bytesWritten ); > > > We know that bytesWritten is within the bounds of the 'buffer' array and > that 'length - bytesWritten' is always greater than 0. Therefore we believe > the issue to be with SSL_write() itself. We are using OpenSSL 0.9.8. > Anyone ever run into something like this, or have any ideas on what might be > happening? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks > > Dusty > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
