Re: Receive throttling on SSL sockets

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TLS is a bidirectional protocol.  You can’t throttle only one side.

 

From: Alex H <alexhultman@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: openssl-users <openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7:21 PM
To: openssl-users <openssl-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [openssl-users] Receive throttling on SSL sockets

 

How do you properly implement receive throttling on SSL sockets without hindering writing?

 

As opposed to raw TCP sockets, an SSL socket cannot be receive-throttled simply by stop polling for readable events on the underlying raw TCP socket. SSL_write still could require reading of data so simply stop polling for readable would potentially hinder writing of data which is not okay.

 

Is there any such receive-throttling functionality in the SSL protocol itself? I don't see how SSL_peek would solve the issue since I would still be buffering (potentially uncontrolled amount of) data in a BIO.

 

Even if I would _only_ enable readable polling when _absolutely needed_ as per SSL_write error, I still cannot guarantee not reading a chunk of data (which I would then need to buffer up in a BIO since the application is not expecting it).

 

How are we supposed to solve this issue without potentially building up backpressure?

 

Thanks

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