Performance evaluation of HTTPS library

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
Ashish <amvyas82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, CBSocket is socket implementation that calls my callback on
> data.
> Both my classes AsyncHTTPSConnection and AsyncHTTPConnection use it
> and use it the same way ( self.sock = CBSocket(sock2) ).
> The implemetation of AsyncHTTPConnection differs from
> AsyncHTTPSConnection only in connect method: sock2 =
> ssl.wrap_socket(sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
> 
> class CBSocket(asynchat.async_chat):
[...]

Ok, this won't work as expected. The first issue is that
ssl.wrap_socket() is a blocking operation, where your client will send
data and wait for the server reply (it's the SSL's handshake),
*before* the socket has been set in non-blocking mode by asyncore. It
means that your client will remain idle a lot of time, and explains
that neither the client nor the server reach 100% CPU utilization.

The second issue is that combining SSL and asyncore is more complicated
than that; there are various situations to consider which your code
doesn't address. The stdlib right now doesn't provide SSL support for
asyncore (see http://bugs.python.org/issue10084 ), so you would have to
do it yourself. I don't think it's worth the trouble, and would
recommend switching your client to a simple thread-based approach,
where you handle each HTTP(S) connection in a separate thread and stick
to blocking I/O.

Regards

Antoine.