Any ideas?

Best Regards.
Umesh.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Umesh Bywar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Timing of events


> Hi all:
>
>    I am not sure if this is the right forum to post my query. But I am 
> taking my chance.
>    I am working on writing a proxy for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. For 
> intercepting HTTPS traffic, I have to upgrade a socket to SSL. My problem 
> is, before my upgradation is done completely, mozilla's reader tries to 
> read something from the socket and that messes up the handshake. This 
> happens on a different thread and hence I do not have any control over 
> when this reader gets invoked. To make it more clear, I am describing my 
> steps here:
> 1) Client sends a CONNECT request over the socket and proxy reads it.
> 2) The proxy responds with "200 OK" response telling the client that proxy 
> is ready for SSL communication.
> 3) The client sends the handshake message (Client Hello)
> 4) Meanwhile proxy tries to upgrade the socket to make it able to handle 
> SSL. (ref: 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html).
> 5) While this upgrdation is going on, my breakpoint at 
> nsSocketInputStream::Read() is hit. So even before the socket is 
> configured completely for SSL, the reader is invoked. That causes the 
> handshake to fail.
>
>    My question is can I somehow have control over when the reader should 
> be invoked? I would like the reading to start after my socket is 
> completely upgraded.
>
>    I have done a related posting on crypto group which is available at 
> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/65b08a99cdbf6b10/5dd42b14b10d23ba
>
>    Please let me know if anybody has any ideas regarding this.
>    Thanks.
>
> Best Regards.
> Umesh.
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