SSL handshake blocks Perlbal

Elliot F elliotf-danga-perlbal at gratuitous.net
Mon May 22 08:23:41 UTC 2006


Not to bring up a relatively old topic, but has this subject been
pursued at all?

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I feared something like this might happen.
> 
> I have no answer except begging the IO::Socket::SSL maintainer to look at
> Perlbal and try to fix make IO::Socket::SSL non-blocking in that phase.  :/
> 
> - Brad
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Alessandro Ranellucci wrote:
> 
> 
>>Greetings,
>>
>>an easy way to block an instance of Perlbal running SSL is to open a
>>telnet session to its port. The accept() method will then wait for
>>client handshake, thus blocking the whole application.
>>
>>See this thread for further information:
>>http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/433
>>
>>We would need a non-blocking IO::Socket::SSL port. :-(
>>Brad, any clue?
>>
>>  - alessandro ranellucci.
>>
>>



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