From: Martin Bosslet <Martin.Bosslet@...>
Date: 2011-10-19T01:37:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40215] [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5233] OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket has problems with encodings other than "ascii"


Issue #5233 has been updated by Martin Bosslet.


The problem is in lib/openssl/buffering.rb:

    def do_write(s)
      @wbuffer = "" unless defined? @wbuffer
      @wbuffer << s
      @sync ||= false
      if @sync or @wbuffer.size > BLOCK_SIZE or idx = @wbuffer.rindex($/)
        remain = idx ? idx + $/.size : @wbuffer.length
        nwritten = 0
        while remain > 0
          str = @wbuffer[nwritten,remain]
          begin
            nwrote = syswrite(str)
          rescue Errno::EAGAIN
            retry
          end
          remain -= nwrote
          nwritten += nwrote
        end
        @wbuffer[0,nwritten] = ""
      end
    end

remain gets initialized with @wbuffer.length, the string length in characters, 
but nwrote receives the actual number of bytes written, so less bytes than 
actually available are written.

A fix for this would be treating @wbuffer strictly as binary data by forcing
its encoding to BINARY. I'm not sure, does anyone see a more elegant way or
would this solution suffice?
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Bug #5233: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket has problems with encodings other than "ascii"
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5233

Author: Niklas Baumstark
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Martin Bosslet
Category: ext
Target version: 1.9.4
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]


The attached script shows the issue. It expects a combined cert/private key in the file server.pem under the current directory (also attached). 
Under Ruby 1.9.2p290, the script prints "str.size is 50848 (expecting 100000)".
As a workaround the string encoding can be forced to "ascii" before the write.


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