> Mark Williams wrote:
> 
> > I can think of one.  In the near future I will need to add 
> SSL support
> > to a
> > legacy application which uses two threads to read/write from/to a
> > socket.
> > If SSL supported this it would make my life much easier.  As the
> > situation
> > stands I am not sure how to tackle this project.
> 
> There are two obvious, simple ways:
> 
> 1) Have another application that does the SSL work, you can even use
> existing ssl proxies. Then you don't have to change the IO in 
> your pump.

The client wants the whole thing contained in one library so I don't
think this
one is an option.
 
> 2) Let the two threads read and write to your own two 
> independent queues and
> service the application side of the SSL connection with your 
> own code to and from the read and write queues.

Won't I still need to combine the reading and writing to the SSL object
into a
single thread for this?  This is the bit I am having difficulty
visualising.

Are there any samples around that do this?

Mark.

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