Hi Josh,

Thank you very much for sharing!

Regards,

Galen

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general <
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> Just in case anyone else sets up sip2 + Stunnel for auth with
> CloudLibrary.  We ran into an issue where the CloudLibrary
> authentication would work for a while, and then fail for several minutes at
> a time.
>
> (Making some assumptions here since my questions to OCLC support never get
> responses about specifics) CloudLibrary/OCLC setup a service on their end
> that serializes all authentication requests they get through a single
> sip2/stunnel connection.  So it keeps a single sip2 connection open for as
> long as possible, with a long idle timeout time.
>
> I don't think our other sip2/stunnel using vendors do it that way, I think
> they open a new connection for each authentication request.
>
> So the CloudLibrary auth service is sensitive to timeouts.  I had the
> stunnel TIMEOUTidle setting unset, so the default setting which is 12
> hours.  And our sipserver was setup with a 60 second timeout.  So I think
> what was happening was that sipserver timed out after 60 seconds, but
> stunnel kept the connection open, so their application couldn't detect the
> connection closing.
>
> So setting the stunnel TIMEOUTidle to 59 seconds seems to have fixed it.
>
> Probably lengthening the sipserver timeout to something longer in this
> case would also help the situation.
> Josh
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