RE: funny behaviour of openssl s_client in win32

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: "Joel T. Geiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

JTGeiger> I have the same problem with s_client on Win 95...I am
JTGeiger> unable to type anything after the client has connected to
JTGeiger> the server.  I have also noticed a similar problem with
JTGeiger> s_server:  I connect to my Win 95 s_server from a Linux
JTGeiger> version of s_client (since the Windows one does not work).
JTGeiger> The client can write to the server, but the server does not
JTGeiger> accept keyboard input to reply to the client.  This problem
JTGeiger> does not occur in either s_server or s_client under Linux;
JTGeiger> both parts can send and receive without problems.  I believe
JTGeiger> the problem under Windows has to do with a select() call in
JTGeiger> both s_server and s_client, but there could be another
JTGeiger> problem somewhere.  Anyone have an idea for a fix??

I've now checked the docs that I happen to have access to (MSDN Library),
and in the case of select() (which is used by s_client and s_server to
detect keyboard input as well as network on Unix), the only thing that
it applies on is sockets (according to said docs, I can't verify the
veracity at this time), so it will never detect keyboard input.  That
has to be handled in some different way (sorry, I've no suggestion,
I'm not a Winblows hacker).  As said before, exactly the same problem
exists on VMS (a little depending on the TCP/IP implementation,
believe it or not...).

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