Perhaps I spoke too soon about having solved my own problem.

Suppose I have a configuration file (test.conf) like this:

client=yes connect=www.fossil-scm.org:443

Then if I run:

stunnel test.conf

And I type "GET / HTTP/1.0" on standard input, the webpage comes back on standard output. So far so good. But if I do:

stunnel test.conf <test.in >test.out

Where file test.in contains the "GET / HTTP/1.0" test, I get nothing back! I also tried this:

cat test.in | stunnel test.conf

And various combinations of this:

openssl s_client -connect www.fossil-scm.org:443 <test.in

In every case, when I type the GET line on standard input it works. When I redirect from a file it does not. Any hints on the cause of the very unexpected and very mysterious behavior?

D. Richard Hipp drh@hwaci.com