[Python-Dev] ssl module, non-blocking sockets and asyncore integration (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 23:47:03 CEST 2008

Bill Janssen wrote:

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:40:01 PDT, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote: Ah, now I remember. It seems that sometimes when SSLERRORWANTREAD was returned, things would block; that is, the "handleread" method on asyncore.dispatcher was never called again, so the SSLSocket.recv() method was never re-called. There are several levels of buffering going on, and I never figured out just why that was. This (very rare) re-call of "read" is to handle that.

You certainly do need to call read again if OpenSSL fails an SSLread with a want-read error, but in asyncore, you don't want to do it right away, you want to wait until the socket becomes readable again, otherwise you do block waiting for bytes from the network. See the SSL support in Twisted for an example of the correct way to handle this. Jean-Paul Yes, I understand, and that's how I started out. The bug we were seeing was that "handleread" wasn't being called again by asyncore.

It's probably worth sticking a comment in the code explaining why we're taking the risk of temporarily blocking on a non-blocking socket (i.e. until someone figures out how to reproduce that bug reliably so that a more correct fix can be devised).

Cheers, Nick.

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