From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-02-08T04:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] openssl-nonblock 0.1.0

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:49:33PM +0900, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've seen various requests for non-blocking OpenSSL support.  As a
> maintainer of a non-blocking event library this was crucial for the stuff I
> was doing.  I developed a C extension which uses some pretty crazy hacks to
> patch non-blocking support into the existing OpenSSL C extension.
> 
> As this can benefit people who aren't using my event library, I've gone
> ahead and rolled this functionality into its own gem, which works on 1.8.6,
> 1.8.7, and 1.9.1:
> 
> github: http://github.com/tarcieri/openssl-nonblock/tree/master
> rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=31150
> 
> This gem adds an additional four methods to OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket:
> connect_nonblock, accept_nonblock, read_nonblock, and write_nonblock.  It
> also adds an additional two exceptions: OpenSSL::SSL::ReadAgain and
> OpenSSL::SSL::WriteAgain to handle cases where the system isn't ready to
> perform the given I/O request.
> 
> I've seen some patches for this on the 1.9 Redmine (e.g.
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/814) but they aren't comprehensive
> and don't address connect_nonblock and accept_nonblock.
> 
> I hope these issues get addressed by ruby-core eventually, but with this gem
> you can have non-blocking SSL I/O today.

Have you submitted patches to ruby-core?

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Aaron Patterson
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