Thanks for your comments Thomas and Heiko.
I was going to alter the code so as not to exit when eof is detected on
stdin but it just hit me that setting -quiet as a command line switch has
the same effect (but, I think, for the wrong reasons)!
cheers, Alasdair.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Reinke [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 7:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Scripting of s_client
>
> Point 3 is your problem, s_client handles stdin in a special
> way :(
>
> s_client assumes that if either stdin or the ssl socket
> hits end of file, that it should shut down operation.
> Unfortunately, when redirecting stdin from a file,
> what happens is that you read the command to send to
> the remote web server, send it, and then quit before
> the response can be read in.
>
> If you need to get around this, the easiest is probably
> to go into the s_client code and modify it to not
> shut down the connection. We've done this in the past
> on older releases of SSLeay, and its about a 5 line
> code change. There are a number of ways of doing it,
> but here's one:
>
> 1) When the FDSET is built to do a select on, have
> a flag called "stdin_open" that must be true
> before adding stdin to the FDSET.
> 2) At the start of the main select loop, set stdin_open
> to true.
> 3) When end-of-file is detected on stdin, set stdin_open
> to false.
>
> Cheers, Thomas
>
> Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> >
> > Are you using "expect" ?
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> > >
> > > I would like to use the openssl app from a shell script but have found
> > > things don't go as expected.
> > > To illustrate what I am trying to do, here is an analogous situation
> using
> > > ftp:
> > >
> > > file listCmds:
> > > ?
> > > quit
> > >
> > > file showFtpCommands
> > > ftp < listCmds
> > >
> > > If I run the 'showFtpCommands' file I get a list of the ftp commands.
> > > I would like to have something using openssl such that I open a
> connection
> > > to a web server (say) and then do a GET / HTTP/1.0
> > >
> > > (including 2* CRLF) I can do this interactively but would like to
> automate
> > > the procedure.
> > > Eg
> > > openssl s_client -connect some.web.server:443 < httpRequestFile
> > >
> > > Questions I have are:
> > > 1. Is what I'm trying to do reasonable?
> > > 2. Can the effect be achieved with openssl as it stands?
> > > 3. Does openssl/s_client handle stdin in a special way?
> >
> > --
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