[Net-ssleay-devel] Re: SSLeay not timeing out

[sampo at symlabs.com]

The new maintainers of this module, Florian Ragwitz and Mike McCauley
have setup a mailing list 

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/net-ssleay/
net-ssleay-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org 

Please discuss there. 

 --Sampo 

Thomas Belote writes:
> Perl Net::SSLeay does not seem to timeout or at least takes a very long time to, not respecting the timeout passed in (the way IO::Socket::INET does). This happens on connect, read and getline functions. 
> 
> I have observed this behavior on RedHat Fedora Core 4 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 smp) with perl, v5.8.6 built for i386-linux-thread-multi OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005
> Module id = Net::SSLeay
>     DESCRIPTION  Secure Socket Layer (based on OpenSSL)
>     CPAN_USERID  SAMPO (Sampo Kellomaki <sampo at iki.fi>)
>     CPAN_VERSION 1.25
>     CPAN_FILE    S/SA/SAMPO/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25.tar.gz
>     UPLOAD_DATE  2003-08-18
>     DSLI_STATUS  bmhf (beta,mailing-list,hybrid,functions)
>     MANPAGE      Net::SSLeay - Perl extension for using OpenSSL
>     INST_FILE    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/SSLeay.pm
>     INST_VERSION 1.25 
> 
>  
> And on FreeBSD  5.4-RELEASE-p6  with  perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int and Net::SSLeay 1.25, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
> OpenSSL 0.9.8 05 Jul 2005
 


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