[noPoll] Fixed -- Re: Websocket disconnect issues

Sab Abr 23 10:11:44 CEST 2016

Hello Rahul,

Received. I'll you know something,

Best Regards,

> Hello Francis,
> 
>  
> 
> My test scenario just hit the condition. The connection however got
> broken with the following error message:
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> 
> Failed to get next 2 bytes to read header from the wire, failed to
> received content, shutting down id=2 the connection, errno=0 (No
> error)
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> 
> Since the number of bytes read was not printed, I am guessing it was
> 1. 
> 
> The receive call did not actually fail but possibly delivered 1 byte.
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> Regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Rahul
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> From: Kale, Rahul 
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:04 AM
> To: 'francis.brosnan en aspl.es'
> Cc: nopoll en lists.aspl.es
> Subject: RE: Fixed -- Re: [noPoll] Websocket disconnect issues
> 
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> Hello,
> 
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> 
> I am currently running the test scenario but the failure condition has
> not happened yet
> 
> in the first 12 hours. Sometimes it takes 2-3 days to reproduce. I
> will let you
> 
> know when it happens next.
> 
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> 
> Besides the SSL twist, even for plain TCP connection I believe this
> situation can occur.
> 
> Due to maximum transmission unit (MTU) limitations the sender can
> break up messages
> 
> at arbitrary byte boundaries. If the receiver is slow to read, or if
> the network
> 
> bandwidth is limited, a fast sender will accumulate data to send. It
> will send
> 
> piled up data (multiple websocket messages in our case) in chunks of
> MTU size
> 
> and end up breaking messages at arbitrary byte boundaries.
> 
>  
> 
> You are totally correct in saying that the OS will not deliver bytes
> collected
> 
> from the wire to user space in a broken fashion. But the OS on the
> sender can put the
> 
> bytes on the wire in arbitrary pieces (TCP segments) depending on
> transient network conditions, 
> 
> acks received, TCP sliding window size, round trip time, MTU size
> etc. 
> 
> I am no expert at this, but the few TCP protocols I have implemented I
> have always had to account for this
> 
> before the application achieved 24/7 reliability.  For non-blocking
> sockets this is not trivial to achieve.
> 
> For blocking sockets, it is much easier.
> 
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> I am glad that you are considering fixing this properly. It will make
> the nopoll
> 
> library more robust for everyone :)
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> Thanks,
> 
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> 
> Rahul
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> 
> 
> From: Francis Brosnan Blázquez [mailto:francis.brosnan en aspl.es] 
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 5:52 AM
> To: Kale, Rahul
> Cc: nopoll en lists.aspl.es
> Subject: Re: Fixed -- Re: [noPoll] Websocket disconnect issues
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi Raul,
> 
> It is going to take us a bit to deeply resolve the issue and
> more precisely, to support websockets peers sending byte
> by byte important parts of the headers that should be received
> at once...
> 
> In any case, I was wondering if you did have time to check
> latest modifications... did them resolve the issue? Is it more
> stable your test case?
> 
> Please, let us know how the latest changes performs in your
> scenario,
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks very much for your excellent analysis. It is indeed surprising
> that such a small packet seems to be delivered in chunks occasionally.
> Perhaps the fact that this is via SSL is compounding the issue. The
> original websocket provided on the server side is proxied via Apache
> Webserver which adds an SSL layer.
> 
> I see that the noPoll code is already handling broken headers for the
> first two bytes and also for 4 bytes of mask. I was assuming that you
> have already faced similar issues in the past.
> 
> I really appreciate your efforts in chasing these issues and fixing
> them promptly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 
> 
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