Re: [Dovecot] imap-login hanging when firewall blocks ssl handshaking

On 30.11.2012, at 0.12, Ben Morrow wrote:

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This change isn't very reliable, since the previous call might not have been read().. I wonder if something like would work:

if (!proxy->client && read(proxy->fd_ssl, &err, 0) < 0 && errno == ENOTCONN) {

How about calling getpeername on fd_ssl? That should reliably tell you if the socket is connected or not. http://cr.yp.to/docs/connect.html suggests that read is not always a reliable test for that.

Yes, that sounds like it would work better:

if (!proxy->client && net_getpeername(proxy->fd_ssl, NULL, NULL) < 0 && errno == ENOTCONN) {