Re: [Libevent-users] Re: evhttp: persistent connections over ssl with chunked transfer encoding bug?

["Hochhaus, Andrew" <ahochhaus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Catalin Patulea <catalinp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Seems like bev_ssl flushes data to SSL_write and notifies back more
> eagerly than bev_sock, which is confusing evhttp_send_reply_end.

Thanks Catalin.

Based on your comments, I tried moving evhttp_write_buffer() above
evbuffer_add() and it does mitigate the issue.

> If it is deemed acceptable for a bev to flush and cb from
> evbuffer_add, then maybe bev_ssl should also fire a write_cb upon
> enable(EV_WRITE) when everything has already been flushed.
>
> Otherwise (and it seems most of evhttp is built on this assumption),
> bev_ssl should never flush anything unless it's being called from the
> event loop.

I'm interested to hear suggestions for the correct fix.

-Andy
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