SSL handshake blocks Perlbal

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

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.
>
>