On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 13:58, Rocco Caputo wrote: > It can take a long time to build a TCP socket and even longer to > determine the socket can't be built. Connecting in non-blocking mode > will let other things happen while TCP works out the details. Once > the socket is built, it can be made to block again.
So I take it that what you are saying is that "connect" could block for a long time. > I've used POE::Wheel::SocketFactory to create plain sockets without > blocking. Once the connection succeeds, I've made it secure by > turning blocking back on and tie()'ing a modified Net::SSLeay::Handle > class to the socket. > > See <http://poe.dynodns.net/~troc/tmp/poing-ssl.perl>. It requires > POE 0.19. Thank you. I did take a look, very nifty. This probably cuts down most of the hangs. I wonder whether there is a way to incorporate this into PoCoCl::UserAgent. Pete
