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Hi,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I'm running stunnel 4.04
on ia64-redhat-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I have basically taken
a generic TCP interface and implemented a STUNNEL client/server setup to
allow the connection to transfer data using SSL. I have an issue
with checking the status of the connection when a connection attempt is
made. We are using ObjectSpace libraries for all of our tcp related
connections so I don't have the low level calls that are actually being
made, but here is a brief description of what is happenning....</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> We create an os_tcp_socket
object and call the connect_to() method. This establishes a connection
to the stunnel client on my local machine....which in turn makes the connection
the the stunnel server on the remote machine. The problem I'm am
having is when I can't get to the remote machine. After the connect_to()
call, we check the status of the socket and unless I sleep for 5-10 seconds,
it always seems to think that the connection is ok...which kind-of makes
sense because it is able to connect to the stunnel client port since it
is local...but in fact, if there isn't access to the remote machine, eventually
stunnel will close that initial connection to that socket (that where the
5-10 second delay seems to help). The status I really want is weather
or not the entire connection was successful through stunnel to the remote
machine. Is there a better way to do this other than putting a sleep()
in. Right now I have a 10 second sleep in between the connect_to()
call and the status check on the local/client stunnel TCP port. That
seems to be enough time for stunnel to attept to complete the connection
and kill the connection to it's local/client port so that when I check
the status of it, it comes back bad.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> If this is the best way
to do it...what is the amount of time needed for stunnel to attempt to
complete it's connection to the remote machine?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks!</font>
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Jeff</font>