Re: [gnutls-dev] Bug#386530: sits waiting for server reponse in socket_bye

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,
this is http://bugs.debian.org/386530 submitted by "Robert Millan
[ackstorm]" <address@hidden>:

On 2006-09-08 "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Package: gnutls-bin
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch upstream

> Some servers (e.g. IIS) don't send a reply to gnutls_bye's close request.  
> This
> causes socket_bye to sit waiting for input from peer that never comes.

> Since socket_bye is going to close the connection, we don't need to wait for
> it anyway.  My attached patch replaces GNUTLS_SHUT_RDWR with GNUTLS_SHUT_WR,
> which seems to archieve that.

> Note: this patch has already been sent to upstream (address@hidden)


I have stumbled upon this when browsing through gnutls' Debian's bug
and it still seems to be open in 1.7.x. Due to address@hidden
being non-public I do not know whether this has already been
discussed.

cu andreas

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