[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#386530: [PATCH] gnutls-cli -t <timeout>

[Robert Millan [ackstorm]]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:23:14AM +0200, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:10:28PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > 
> > However, I'm not convinced this is the right fix.  I believe the servers
> > are buggy here, and changing gnutls seems the wrong response.
> > 
> > What we may want to do is to improve the behaviour when we encounter a
> > buggy server, which may include some kind of timeout or similar.
> > However, if the server closed the connection, I think it should be
> > possible to detect this, and then we can print a message.
> 
> I'm working on this atm.  I have almost completed a patch that implements this
> timeout option (will send it RSN).
> 
> > To work on this, I need a way to reproduce it though.  Do you know of a
> > server that exhibit this behaviour that we can use?
> 
> This works:  while sudo nc -lp 443 ; do true ; done
> 
> But please wait a day or two for my patch.

Here is it.  The SIGALRM feature was getting into the way, so I moved it to
SIGHUP, which is more consistent with existing practice.

Works for dumb netcat-like servers, but is also useful for normal servers when
you want to gather information about certificates without starting an HTTP
session.

-- 
Robert Millan

ACK STORM, S.L. - http://www.ackstorm.es
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