From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T07:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: More on DRB & OpenSSL

Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

>OK, I've tracked down my problem with DRb and OpenSSL a bit more; perhaps
>someone can help me out now, as I'm quickly getting out of my league. Here
>are test client and server scripts that will show the failure. To run them,
>you'll need the latest DRb from ruby CVS
>(http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lib/drb) installed (and of
>course the OpenSSL extension).
>
>s.rb:
>
>  require 'drb'
>  require 'drb/ssl'
>
>  class Front
>    def small
>      puts "Called #small"
>      "Hi!"
>    end
>
>    def large
>      puts "Called #large"
>      "a" * 1000 * 500
>    end
>  end
>
>  url = ARGV[0] or raise "You must supply the url"
>  config = {
>    :SSLCertName => [ ["C","US"], ["O","someplace"], ["CN", "Temporary"] ],
>    :verbose => true
>  }
>  DRb.start_service(url, Front::new, config)
>  puts "Listening on #{url}"
>  DRb.thread.join
>
>c.rb:
>
>  require 'drb'
>  require 'drb/ssl'
>
>  url = ARGV[0] or raise "You must supply the url"
>  DRb.start_service
>  front = DRbObject::new(nil, url)
>  puts "Connected to #{url}"
>  p front.small.size
>  p front.large.size
>
>s.rb output:
>
>  ntalbott@proxytest:~$ ruby -vw s.rb drbssl://localhost:5777
>  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-linux]
>  .++++++++++++
>  ....................++++++++++++
>  Listening on drbssl://localhost:5777
>  Called #small
>  Called #large
>  s.rb:23:in `join': Interrupt    from s.rb:23
>
>c.rb output:
>
>  ntalbott@proxytest:~$ ruby -vw c.rb drbssl://localhost:5777
>  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-linux]
>  Connected to drbssl://localhost:5777
>  3
>  (Hangs until server is interrupted)
>  500000
>
>If there's any other information I can provide, or anything else I can do to
>help debug this, please let me know. Also, if there are other places I
>should ask this question, please let me know that, too.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Nathaniel
>
><:((><
>  
>

I've noticed that there is always a strange silence on DRb questions.  I 
wonder how many people really use it.  I love it, well, I love what I 
know about it.  The docs seems a little hard to come by.

Michael