On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 03:11:52PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Ben Laurie wrote:
>> I've obviously missed something ... what problem are you trying to
>> solve?
> Check my original post (I'm copying it below). We're unhappy
> with OpenSSL's support for nonblocking I/O on servers; currently,
> it either wants you to rewrite your server to let OpenSSL handle
> the network I/O, or use BIO pairs to let OpenSSL think it's doing
> networking still. Neither alternative is appealing.
The TLS/SSL protocols are designed to run on top of a network
connection (surprise :-), so it's a rather obvious approach to have
the API designed accordingly.
> I'd prefer to bypass all OpenSSL-internal buffering and I/O entirely,
> and let the app do all the buffering and I/O.
Maybe, but I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Could you describe
in terms of an approximate example API?
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