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List:       openssl-users
Subject:    Re: SSL_connect behaviour
From:       Eric Rescorla <ekr () rtfm ! com>
Date:       2001-11-29 19:35:18
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"Patrick Li" <pcwli@home.com> writes:
> I am experiencing the SSL_connect() call is blocking indefinitely over
> blocking socket under the following scenario:
> 
> Server performs ::bind() and ::listen(), hasn't executed ::accept() nor
> SSL_accept() yet.
> 
> Client performs ::connect() and SSL_connect() and it is blocking forever.
> 
> I can understand that the client is waiting for the server to perform the
> handshake but since the server hasn't executed accept() and SSL_accept()
> yet, it is blocked.   My question is should SSL_connect return error in this
> scenairo?
No. There's no way for the client to know that the server hasn't called
accept(). The only thing you can do is set a timeout so you don't block
forever.

-Ekr

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