Exactly what david says... 

why would you want to risk data loss ??

Lokesh.

On 6/2/05, Gayathri Sundar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What I think is as its the application's responsibility to retry
> the "same" openssl operation whenever it receives a WANT_READ or
> WANT_WRITE, why cant we simply overwrite the buffer that is passed
> to say SSL_write with the next payload that needs to be sent when we hit
> that error code, in this way we can automatically drop the earlier
> payload that was attempted.
> Hope this is correct.
> 
> Thanks
> --Gayathri
> 
> ===================================================
> HI,
> 
> You may want to consider using SSL_CTX_set_mode(...)
> with SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag such that you would'nt recieve
> SSL_ERROR_WANT_XXX messages.
> 
> Normally those messages come when the other side requests for re-negotiation.
> 
> -Lokesh.
> 
> 
> On 5/31/05, opt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I want to use timeout with select and I wonder how to "cancel" operation
> > (SSL_read or SSL_write non-blocking) that caused SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ (or
> > *_WRITE). I've got messages queue to send (and one for received too). If
> > I cannot send whole particular msg within some time (5 sec) I want to
> > discard this message and start sending another one. The problem is, when
> > not fully transmited (received) msg "locks" in state where I receive
> > SSL_ERROR_WANT_XXX. From docs etc. I know, that when I've got
> > SSL_ERROR_WANT_* I have to retry operation which caused this "error" but
> > it require more time, which I haven't got becouse I want to send another
> > message ! I can always close connection and open it again, but it is
> > ugly solution. Is there any way, to do it in more "polite" way ?
> >
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