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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +ossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-non\-block +\&\- OpenSSL Guide: Writing a simple nonblocking TLS client +.SH "SIMPLE NONBLOCKING TLS CLIENT EXAMPLE" +.IX Header "SIMPLE NONBLOCKING TLS CLIENT EXAMPLE" +This page will build on the example developed on the +\&\fBossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-block\fR\|(7) page which demonstrates how to write a simple +blocking TLS client. On this page we will amend that demo code so that it +supports a nonblocking socket. +.PP +The complete source code for this example nonblocking TLS client is available +in the \fBdemos/guide\fR directory of the OpenSSL source distribution in the file +\&\fBtls\-client\-non\-block.c\fR. It is also available online at +<https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/demos/guide/tls\-client\-non\-block.c>. +.PP +As we saw in the previous example a blocking socket is one which waits (blocks) +until data is available to read if you attempt to read from it when there is no +data yet. Similarly it waits when writing if the socket is currently unable to +write at the moment. This can simplify the development of code because you do +not have to worry about what to do in these cases. The execution of the code +will simply stop until it is able to continue. However in many cases you do not +want this behaviour. Rather than stopping and waiting your application may need +to go and do other tasks whilst the socket is unable to read/write, for example +updating a GUI or performing operations on some other socket. +.PP +With a nonblocking socket attempting to read or write to a socket that is +currently unable to read or write will return immediately with a non-fatal +error. Although OpenSSL does the reading/writing to the socket this nonblocking +behaviour is propagated up to the application so that OpenSSL I/O functions such +as \fBSSL_read_ex\fR\|(3) or \fBSSL_write_ex\fR\|(3) will not block. +.PP +Since this page is building on the example developed on the +\&\fBossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-block\fR\|(7) page we assume that you are familiar with it +and we only explain how this example differs. +.SS "Setting the socket to be nonblocking" +.IX Subsection "Setting the socket to be nonblocking" +The first step in writing an application that supports nonblocking is to set +the socket into nonblocking mode. A socket will be default be blocking. The +exact details on how to do this can differ from one platform to another. +Fortunately OpenSSL offers a portable function that will do this for you: +.PP +.Vb 5 +\& /* Set to nonblocking mode */ +\& if (!BIO_socket_nbio(sock, 1)) { +\& sock = \-1; +\& continue; +\& } +.Ve +.PP +You do not have to use OpenSSL's function for this. You can of course directly +call whatever functions that your Operating System provides for this purpose on +your platform. +.SS "Performing work while waiting for the socket" +.IX Subsection "Performing work while waiting for the socket" +In a nonblocking application you will need work to perform in the event that +we want to read or write to the socket, but we are currently unable to. In fact +this is the whole point of using a nonblocking socket, i.e. to give the +application the opportunity to do something else. Whatever it is that the +application has to do, it must also be prepared to come back and retry the +operation that it previously attempted periodically to see if it can now +complete. Ideally it would only do this in the event that the state of the +underlying socket has actually changed (e.g. become readable where it wasn't +before), but this does not have to be the case. It can retry at any time. +.PP +Note that it is important that you retry exactly the same operation that you +tried last time. You cannot start something new. For example if you were +attempting to write the text "Hello World" and the operation failed because the +socket is currently unable to write, then you cannot then attempt to write +some other text when you retry the operation. +.PP +In this demo application we will create a helper function which simulates doing +other work. In fact, for the sake of simplicity, it will do nothing except wait +for the state of the socket to change. +.PP +We call our function \f(CWwait_for_activity()\fR because all it does is wait until +the underlying socket has become readable or writeable when it wasn't before. +.PP +.Vb 4 +\& static void wait_for_activity(SSL *ssl, int write) +\& { +\& fd_set fds; +\& int width, sock; +\& +\& /* Get hold of the underlying file descriptor for the socket */ +\& sock = SSL_get_fd(ssl); +\& +\& FD_ZERO(&fds); +\& FD_SET(sock, &fds); +\& width = sock + 1; +\& +\& /* +\& * Wait until the socket is writeable or readable. We use select here +\& * for the sake of simplicity and portability, but you could equally use +\& * poll/epoll or similar functions +\& * +\& * NOTE: For the purposes of this demonstration code this effectively +\& * makes this demo block until it has something more useful to do. In a +\& * real application you probably want to go and do other work here (e.g. +\& * update a GUI, or service other connections). +\& * +\& * Let\*(Aqs say for example that you want to update the progress counter on +\& * a GUI every 100ms. One way to do that would be to add a 100ms timeout +\& * in the last parameter to "select" below. Then, when select returns, +\& * you check if it did so because of activity on the file descriptors or +\& * because of the timeout. If it is due to the timeout then update the +\& * GUI and then restart the "select". +\& */ +\& if (write) +\& select(width, NULL, &fds, NULL, NULL); +\& else +\& select(width, &fds, NULL, NULL, NULL); +\& } +.Ve +.PP +In this example we are using the \f(CW\*(C`select\*(C'\fR function because it is very simple +to use and is available on most Operating Systems. However you could use any +other similar function to do the same thing. \f(CW\*(C`select\*(C'\fR waits for the state of +the underlying socket(s) to become readable/writeable before returning. It also +supports a "timeout" (as do most other similar functions) so in your own +applications you can make use of this to periodically wake up and perform work +while waiting for the socket state to change. But we don't use that timeout +capability in this example for the sake of simplicity. +.SS "Handling errors from OpenSSL I/O functions" +.IX Subsection "Handling errors from OpenSSL I/O functions" +An application that uses a nonblocking socket will need to be prepared to +handle errors returned from OpenSSL I/O functions such as \fBSSL_read_ex\fR\|(3) or +\&\fBSSL_write_ex\fR\|(3). Errors may be fatal (for example because the underlying +connection has failed), or non-fatal (for example because we are trying to read +from the underlying socket but the data has not yet arrived from the peer). +.PP +\&\fBSSL_read_ex\fR\|(3) and \fBSSL_write_ex\fR\|(3) will return 0 to indicate an error and +\&\fBSSL_read\fR\|(3) and \fBSSL_write\fR\|(3) will return 0 or a negative value to indicate +an error. \fBSSL_shutdown\fR\|(3) will return a negative value to incidate an error. +.PP +In the event of an error an application should call \fBSSL_get_error\fR\|(3) to find +out what type of error has occurred. If the error is non-fatal and can be +retried then \fBSSL_get_error\fR\|(3) will return \fBSSL_ERROR_WANT_READ\fR or +\&\fBSSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE\fR depending on whether OpenSSL wanted to read to or write +from the socket but was unable to. Note that a call to \fBSSL_read_ex\fR\|(3) or +\&\fBSSL_read\fR\|(3) can still generate \fBSSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE\fR because OpenSSL +may need to write protocol messages (such as to update cryptographic keys) even +if the application is only trying to read data. Similarly calls to +\&\fBSSL_write_ex\fR\|(3) or \fBSSL_write\fR\|(3) might generate \fBSSL_ERROR_WANT_READ\fR. +.PP +Another type of non-fatal error that may occur is \fBSSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN\fR. This +indicates an EOF (End-Of-File) which can occur if you attempt to read data from +an \fBSSL\fR object but the peer has indicated that it will not send any more data +on it. In this case you may still want to write data to the connection but you +will not receive any more data. +.PP +Fatal errors that may occur are \fBSSL_ERROR_SYSCALL\fR and \fBSSL_ERROR_SSL\fR. These +indicate that the underlying connection has failed. You should not attempt to +shut it down with \fBSSL_shutdown\fR\|(3). \fBSSL_ERROR_SYSCALL\fR indicates that +OpenSSL attempted to make a syscall that failed. You can consult \fBerrno\fR for +further details. \fBSSL_ERROR_SSL\fR indicates that some OpenSSL error occurred. You +can consult the OpenSSL error stack for further details (for example by calling +\&\fBERR_print_errors\fR\|(3) to print out details of errors that have occurred). +.PP +In our demo application we will write a function to handle these errors from +OpenSSL I/O functions: +.PP +.Vb 7 +\& static int handle_io_failure(SSL *ssl, int res) +\& { +\& switch (SSL_get_error(ssl, res)) { +\& case SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ: +\& /* Temporary failure. Wait until we can read and try again */ +\& wait_for_activity(ssl, 0); +\& return 1; +\& +\& case SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE: +\& /* Temporary failure. Wait until we can write and try again */ +\& wait_for_activity(ssl, 1); +\& return 1; +\& +\& case SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN: +\& /* EOF */ +\& return 0; +\& +\& case SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL: +\& return \-1; +\& +\& case SSL_ERROR_SSL: +\& /* +\& * If the failure is due to a verification error we can get more +\& * information about it from SSL_get_verify_result(). +\& */ +\& if (SSL_get_verify_result(ssl) != X509_V_OK) +\& printf("Verify error: %s\en", +\& X509_verify_cert_error_string(SSL_get_verify_result(ssl))); +\& return \-1; +\& +\& default: +\& return \-1; +\& } +\& } +.Ve +.PP +This function takes as arguments the \fBSSL\fR object that represents the +connection, as well as the return code from the I/O function that failed. In +the event of a non-fatal failure, it waits until a retry of the I/O operation +might succeed (by using the \f(CWwait_for_activity()\fR function that we developed +in the previous section). It returns 1 in the event of a non-fatal error +(except EOF), 0 in the event of EOF, or \-1 if a fatal error occurred. +.SS "Creating the SSL_CTX and SSL objects" +.IX Subsection "Creating the SSL_CTX and SSL objects" +In order to connect to a server we must create \fBSSL_CTX\fR and \fBSSL\fR objects for +this. The steps do this are the same as for a blocking client and are explained +on the \fBossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-block\fR\|(7) page. We won't repeat that information +here. +.SS "Performing the handshake" +.IX Subsection "Performing the handshake" +As in the demo for a blocking TLS client we use the \fBSSL_connect\fR\|(3) function +to perform the TLS handshake with the server. Since we are using a nonblocking +socket it is very likely that calls to this function will fail with a non-fatal +error while we are waiting for the server to respond to our handshake messages. +In such a case we must retry the same \fBSSL_connect\fR\|(3) call at a later time. +In this demo we this in a loop: +.PP +.Vb 7 +\& /* Do the handshake with the server */ +\& while ((ret = SSL_connect(ssl)) != 1) { +\& if (handle_io_failure(ssl, ret) == 1) +\& continue; /* Retry */ +\& printf("Failed to connect to server\en"); +\& goto end; /* Cannot retry: error */ +\& } +.Ve +.PP +We continually call \fBSSL_connect\fR\|(3) until it gives us a success response. +Otherwise we use the \f(CWhandle_io_failure()\fR function that we created earlier to +work out what we should do next. Note that we do not expect an EOF to occur at +this stage, so such a response is treated in the same way as a fatal error. +.SS "Sending and receiving data" +.IX Subsection "Sending and receiving data" +As with the blocking TLS client demo we use the \fBSSL_write_ex\fR\|(3) function to +send data to the server. As with \fBSSL_connect\fR\|(3) above, because we are using +a nonblocking socket, this call could fail with a non-fatal error. In that case +we should retry exactly the same \fBSSL_write_ex\fR\|(3) call again. Note that the +parameters must be \fIexactly\fR the same, i.e. the same pointer to the buffer to +write with the same length. You must not attempt to send different data on a +retry. An optional mode does exist (\fBSSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER\fR) +which will configure OpenSSL to allow the buffer being written to change from +one retry to the next. However, in this case, you must still retry exactly the +same data \- even though the buffer that contains that data may change location. +See \fBSSL_CTX_set_mode\fR\|(3) for further details. As in the TLS client +blocking tutorial (\fBossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-block\fR\|(7)) we write the request +in three chunks. +.PP +.Vb 10 +\& /* Write an HTTP GET request to the peer */ +\& while (!SSL_write_ex(ssl, request_start, strlen(request_start), &written)) { +\& if (handle_io_failure(ssl, 0) == 1) +\& continue; /* Retry */ +\& printf("Failed to write start of HTTP request\en"); +\& goto end; /* Cannot retry: error */ +\& } +\& while (!SSL_write_ex(ssl, hostname, strlen(hostname), &written)) { +\& if (handle_io_failure(ssl, 0) == 1) +\& continue; /* Retry */ +\& printf("Failed to write hostname in HTTP request\en"); +\& goto end; /* Cannot retry: error */ +\& } +\& while (!SSL_write_ex(ssl, request_end, strlen(request_end), &written)) { +\& if (handle_io_failure(ssl, 0) == 1) +\& continue; /* Retry */ +\& printf("Failed to write end of HTTP request\en"); +\& goto end; /* Cannot retry: error */ +\& } +.Ve +.PP +On a write we do not expect to see an EOF response so we treat that case in the +same way as a fatal error. +.PP +Reading a response back from the server is similar: +.PP +.Vb 10 +\& do { +\& /* +\& * Get up to sizeof(buf) bytes of the response. We keep reading until +\& * the server closes the connection. +\& */ +\& while (!eof && !SSL_read_ex(ssl, buf, sizeof(buf), &readbytes)) { +\& switch (handle_io_failure(ssl, 0)) { +\& case 1: +\& continue; /* Retry */ +\& case 0: +\& eof = 1; +\& continue; +\& case \-1: +\& default: +\& printf("Failed reading remaining data\en"); +\& goto end; /* Cannot retry: error */ +\& } +\& } +\& /* +\& * OpenSSL does not guarantee that the returned data is a string or +\& * that it is NUL terminated so we use fwrite() to write the exact +\& * number of bytes that we read. The data could be non\-printable or +\& * have NUL characters in the middle of it. For this simple example +\& * we\*(Aqre going to print it to stdout anyway. +\& */ +\& if (!eof) +\& fwrite(buf, 1, readbytes, stdout); +\& } while (!eof); +\& /* In case the response didn\*(Aqt finish with a newline we add one now */ +\& printf("\en"); +.Ve +.PP +The main difference this time is that it is valid for us to receive an EOF +response when trying to read data from the server. This will occur when the +server closes down the connection after sending all the data in its response. +.PP +In this demo we just print out all the data we've received back in the response +from the server. We continue going around the loop until we either encounter a +fatal error, or we receive an EOF (indicating a graceful finish). +.SS "Shutting down the connection" +.IX Subsection "Shutting down the connection" +As in the TLS blocking example we must shutdown the connection when we are +finished with it. +.PP +If our application was initiating the shutdown then we would expect to see +\&\fBSSL_shutdown\fR\|(3) give a return value of 0, and then we would continue to call +it until we received a return value of 1 (meaning we have successfully completed +the shutdown). In this particular example we don't expect \fBSSL_shutdown()\fR to +return 0 because we have already received EOF from the server indicating that it +has shutdown already. So we just keep calling it until \fBSSL_shutdown()\fR returns 1. +Since we are using a nonblocking socket we might expect to have to retry this +operation several times. If \fBSSL_shutdown\fR\|(3) returns a negative result then we +must call \fBSSL_get_error\fR\|(3) to work out what to do next. We use our +\&\fBhandle_io_failure()\fR function that we developed earlier for this: +.PP +.Vb 10 +\& /* +\& * The peer already shutdown gracefully (we know this because of the +\& * SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN (i.e. EOF) above). We should do the same back. +\& */ +\& while ((ret = SSL_shutdown(ssl)) != 1) { +\& if (ret < 0 && handle_io_failure(ssl, ret) == 1) +\& continue; /* Retry */ +\& /* +\& * ret == 0 is unexpected here because that means "we\*(Aqve sent a +\& * close_notify and we\*(Aqre waiting for one back". But we already know +\& * we got one from the peer because of the SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN +\& * (i.e. EOF) above. +\& */ +\& printf("Error shutting down\en"); +\& goto end; /* Cannot retry: error */ +\& } +.Ve +.SS "Final clean up" +.IX Subsection "Final clean up" +As with the blocking TLS client example, once our connection is finished with we +must free it. The steps to do this for this example are the same as for the +blocking example, so we won't repeat it here. +.SH "FURTHER READING" +.IX Header "FURTHER READING" +See \fBossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-block\fR\|(7) to read a tutorial on how to write a +blocking TLS client. See \fBossl\-guide\-quic\-client\-block\fR\|(7) to see how to do the +same thing for a QUIC client. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +\&\fBossl\-guide\-introduction\fR\|(7), \fBossl\-guide\-libraries\-introduction\fR\|(7), +\&\fBossl\-guide\-libssl\-introduction\fR\|(7), \fBossl\-guide\-tls\-introduction\fR\|(7), +\&\fBossl\-guide\-tls\-client\-block\fR\|(7), \fBossl\-guide\-quic\-client\-block\fR\|(7) +.SH COPYRIGHT +.IX Header "COPYRIGHT" +Copyright 2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +.PP +Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use +this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy +in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at +<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. |