[pyOpenSSL] Timeouts

[Dave Aitel]

Were there any bugs fixed in 0.5.1 relating to timeouts? I'm having no
problems on my Linux 0.5.1 box, but my Windows 0.5 box is failing to
actually timeout (until 300 seconds or so, I'll bet).

I have used set_timeout() on the ctx.
-dave


On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:37:49 -0800
Kevin Lindsay <klindsay at mkintraweb.com> wrote:

> Hello, I've been using pyopenssl with python's BaseHTTPServer and have
> stumbled on to racy bug.
> 
> The server sometimes blocks indefinetly during the SSL handshake
> during a read(). It appears todo this when there are reverse dns
> issues with the client ip or dns server. Maybe if the dns server is
> slow to respond... Basically everything is well and speedy when I
> added my client's IP to /etc/hosts on the server. (linux 2.4.19,
> debian woody). 
> 
> After alot of debugging it seems the following is happening (I'm not
> very familiar with SSL or pyOpenSSL internals) so here is the high
> level list of events:
> 
> 1) Browser Connects to server
> 2) Server does handshake
> 3) Server blocks on read()
> 4) Browser waits for response from server indefinetly
> 
> This only happens with Mozilla based browsers, IE and Opera timeout
> after 5 seconds and will resend the connection request, Mozilla
> doesn't so will spin forever.
> 
> It is a bit racy and only occurs when the server is serving 10 or so
> images at once and I hit reload multiple times.
> 
> I've tested it without threads and the problem still exists. Its the
> only issue I can see with pyOpenSSL, other than that its been
> excellent.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas or would like more info on debugging this
> thing let me know.
> 
> Kevin-
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