[noPoll] Fixed -- Re: Websocket disconnect issues

Francis Brosnan Blázquez francis.brosnan en aspl.es
Mar Mayo 17 17:13:07 CEST 2016


Hi Rahul,

That's nice to hear, 

I'll release then,
Best Regards,

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> Hello Francis,
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> The log output of my overnight test revealed that at least once the
> condition (setting of read_pending_header)
> was hit and the connection resumed normally without  breaking the
> connection. It received one byte
> instead of two and recovered the next byte later. So the issue seems
> to be fixed.
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> Again, thanks for the  update.
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> Rahul
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> From: Kale, Rahul 
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 7:22 PM
> To: 'Francis Brosnan Blázquez'
> Cc: nopoll en lists.aspl.es
> Subject: RE: [noPoll] Fixed -- Re: Websocket disconnect issues
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> Hello Francis,
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> Thanks for the update!
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> I have now integrated it in my test setup and running an overnight
> test case with logging enabled. Awaiting for the corner condition to
> occur.
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> Will let you know.
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> Regards,
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> Rahul
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> From: Francis Brosnan Blázquez [mailto:francis.brosnan en aspl.es] 
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:47 AM
> To: Kale, Rahul
> Cc: nopoll en lists.aspl.es
> Subject: Re: [noPoll] Fixed -- Re: Websocket disconnect issues
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> Hi Rahul,
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> Just let you know I've pushed some additional changes to noPoll's
> github (rev 265 )
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> that should fix this issue. I've also added additional reg tests
> (test_31, 32, 33, 34, and 35)
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> to simulate different stop/pause conditions and got them all working,
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> Let's us know if this fixes your issue,
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> Best Regards,
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>         Hello Rahul,
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>         Received. I'll you know something,
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>                 Hello Francis,
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>                 My test scenario just hit the condition. The
>                 connection however got broken with the following error
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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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>         From: Kale, Rahul 
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>         Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:04 AM
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>         To: 'francis.brosnan en aspl.es'
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>         Subject: RE: Fixed -- Re: [noPoll] Websocket disconnect issues
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>         in the first 12 hours. Sometimes it takes 2-3 days to
>         reproduce. I will let you
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>         Besides the SSL twist, even for plain TCP connection I believe
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>         piled up data (multiple websocket messages in our case) in
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>         implemented I have always had to account for this
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>         I am glad that you are considering fixing this properly. It
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>         From: Francis Brosnan Blázquez
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>         Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 5:52 AM
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>         To: Kale, Rahul
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>         Cc: nopoll en lists.aspl.es
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>         Subject: Re: Fixed -- Re: [noPoll] Websocket disconnect issues
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>         Hi Raul,
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>         It is going to take us a bit to deeply resolve the issue and
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>         more precisely, to support websockets peers sending byte
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>         by byte important parts of the headers that should be received
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>         latest modifications... did them resolve the issue? Is it more
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>         Please, let us know how the latest changes performs in your
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>         Best Regards,
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>         Hello,
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>         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.
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>         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.
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>         I really appreciate your efforts in chasing these issues and
>         fixing them promptly.
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