Re: [libmicrohttpd] libmicrohttpd 0.9.55 https and MHD_USE_EPOLL

[Denis Dowling]

Hi Evgeny,

It is actually the GET that is causing the problem.

I have been able to duplicate as follows:
- Testing on CentOS7.3.1611. Everything up to date according to yum.
- Start with a clean unpack of libmicrohttpd-0.9.55
- Edit the https_fileserver_example.c file and change the 
MHD_USE_THREAD_PER_CONNECTION option to MHD_USE_EPOLL. Leave the other options 
as they are.
- make https_fileserver_example
- In the same directory create 2 files of different sizes (1kB and 100kB)
  dd if=/dev/urandom of=small.dat bs=1024 count=1
  dd if=/dev/urandom of=big.dat bs=1024 count=100
- Start https_fileserver_example
   ./https_fileserver_example 8888
- In another window use wget to grab both files
  wget --no-check-certificate https://localhost:8888/small.dat
  wget --no-check-certificate https://localhost:8888/big.dat

In my case the big.dat download freezes at 16384 bytes downloaded. If I change 
from MHD_USE_EPOLL to MHD_USE_POLL it works fine. If I use MHD_USE_AUTO it 
hangs as the system detects epoll() and uses it.

Regards,
Denis

-----Original Message-----
From: libmicrohttpd [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Evgeny Grin
Sent: Monday, 4 September 2017 8:11 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [libmicrohttpd] libmicrohttpd 0.9.55 https and MHD_USE_EPOLL

Hi Denis,

Thanks for report!
Minimal example could help a lot.

In the meantime, could you provide more details how do you process incoming 
data?
Do you use MHD_USE_ERROR_LOG flag for daemon? What's the output on stderr?

Also you could build MHD from source, modify definition of PUT_SIZE in 
src/testcurl/test_large_put.c and run 'make check'

--
Wishes,
Evgeny

On 04.09.2017 7:35, Denis Dowling wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I recently updated some code to use version 0.9.55 of libmicrohttpd.
> After the change I noticed that larger (~100kB) HTTPS requests are
> blocking forever. During the change I swapped from using the option
> MHD_USE_POLL to MHD_USE_AUTO. I can see from an strace that
> libmicrohttpd is now using epoll() for the dispatching.  If I switch
> back to MHD_USE_POLL then everything works fine again. If I use HTTP
> requests then everything is fine so it is something to do with the
> combination of HTTPS and epoll(). Other options are
> MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD | MHD_USE_SUSPEND_RESUME | MHD_USE_TLS.
>
>
>
> Has anyone seen anything similar? I am running on CentOS7.3. The same
> issue also appears on Redhat7.4. I will try to modify one of the
> example applications in libmicrohttpd to demonstrate the issue.

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