Matthew Donald scripsit:

> Sockets (SSL or otherwise) are layer-3 objects while content is a
layer-7
> object.  To get an accurate end-of-content marker, you'll need to parse the
> output, buts since you are using the https protocol, that's going to be
easy.
> Essentially, parse out the "Content-Length" header and read that many bytes
> past the end of the http headers.

True, except that in various circumstances the "Content-Length" header may
be absent (e.g. special Transfer-Encoding, or a chunked response).  For
the full story see
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.4

Regards

Chris Gray

> On 11 January 2014 19:46, M. V. <bored_to_deat...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> I'm writing an application that creates multiple non-blocking SSL
connections to an https server, in each one I send a request and read
the
>> server's response. my problem is, whatever I do, I can't determine when
the
>> response data is finished. here's part of my code responsible for sending
>> and receiving data:
>> ....
>> fd_set connectionfds;struct timeval timeout2;
>> FD_ZERO(&connectionfds);
>> FD_SET(socket_server, &connectionfds);
>> timeout2.tv_usec = 0;
>> timeout2.tv_sec = 1;while(1){
>>     r=BIO_read(io,buf,BUFSIZZ-1);
>>     if (r>0){
>>         //gather data
>>         continue;
>>     }
>>     else if (SSL_get_error(ssl, r)==SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ){
>>         int ret = select(socket_server + 1, &connectionfds, NULL, NULL,
>> &timeout2);
>>         if (ret <= 0){
>>             break;
>>         }
>>         continue;
>>     }
>>     else{
>>         break;
>>     }}// use whole gathered data....
>> my problem with above code is, if I set select timeout to a small time, I
>> can't guarantee that all data is received (because some servers are really
>> slow), and if I set timeout to a long time (5-10 seconds), my socket is
getting stucked in wait-state for a long time and I can't use the
response
>> before that. I tried to make this work by using "BIO_should_read()" or
"BIO_pending()" functions, but none of them is giving me what I want.
so,
>> Is there a way to determine when exactly there is nothing else to read on
>> the SSL socket?
>> Thank you.




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