Hello Andy,
the problem is that SSL need to write back to the client if it reads
something from the client or it has to write to the server if it reads
something from the server. Currently there is no way in POE to do this
in a Filter, the filter can only transform data it reads but is not able
to write in the direction the data has been come from. POE::Filter::SSL
in version 0.19 (still available on CPAN) don't overwrite but instead
needs a line on the Input-Handler to be able to do the write-back. The
Perl Module Data::Transform is a module from an other person which
resolves the same problem in an other way than overwriting the
problematic code on runtime. His request to support this write-back on
reading didn't get any answer, so he realised this own module part. My
mail on the mailing list about this issue didn't get any answer, too, so
I made this overwriting.
Please tell me how to reproduce your problem. If I can reproduce I will
try to fix this.
Regards,
Markus Müller
Begin forwarded message:
From: Andy Jenkinson<andy.jenkin...@gmail.com>
Date: 8 March 2012 17:04:29 GMT
To: pr...@cpan.org
Subject: poe-filter-ssl bug
Hi,
I have been having some problems adding POE::Filter::SSL into my application, which is a
custom HTTP server using POE::ReadWrite and POE::Filtter::HTTPD. I have found when
testing my application in Chrome that the filter would return a partially parsed request
once the SSL negotiation has succeeded, bypassing the HTTPD filter. The HTTPD filter
would thus be missing the beginning of the request to parse. It seems the same thing
happens when using the examples in the POD itself. To cut a long story short, I have
tracked the bug down to the overwriting of the Stackable get_one method. I must admit
that I don't fully understand what this is doing or why the module chooses to overload
Stackable's normal operation, but it looks like the problem is that the
"doSendback" check takes no account of if there is data to be exchanged with
the next filter, i.e. if $return is an array with multiple elements. I fixed it in my
application by changing the check in the overridden get_one to:
if (checkForDoSendback($return)&& ($return->[0] eq $filter)) {
return $return if (scalar @$return == 1);
shift @$return;;
}
I have to ask: why does the filter need to go through this hacking of the
symbol table?
Cheers,
Andy
