History Of Ticket 94c6a431fee47acdb590ee3963704ef1d756a5cf

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  1. Ticket change [9218f65776] (rid 1345) by anonymous on 2018-04-01 14:06:53:

    1. foundin initialized to: "1.7.16"
    2. icomment:
      This bug might not be in Tcltls: it might be in Tcl stacked channels, the Tcl
      [read] command, fileevent generation or buffering.
      
      The bug occurs when using Tcltls 1.7.16 with the stock Tcl 8.6.8 and
      LibreSSL 2.6.4, but has existed for a long time: it also occurs in older
      versions at least as far back as Tcltls 1.6.7, Tcl 8.5.13 and OpenSSL 1.02d.
      
      When a channel is opened with tls::socket, a non-blocking [read] does not
      always return the available data, sometimes (if -blocksize is 4096) even if it
      exceeds the size requested; instead it waits until the remote server closes
      the connection.
      
      When using http::geturl with tls::socket, a HTTPS request for an entity that
      is larger than the -blocksize hangs if the server response uses a persistent
      connection and does not use chunked encoding (but does supply an accurate
      Content-Length header).  The client has some successful [reads], but then
      does nothing until the server times out, although the full response has been
      received and is buffered somewhere.
      
      The relevant part of http is in the command http::Event, for unchunked data
      with known size $state(totalsize) obtained from a Content-Length header.  The
      relevant part of the code can be abstracted as:
      
      fconfigure $sock -blocking off -translation binary -buffersize $state(-blocksize)
      fileevent $sock readable [list http::Event $sock $token]
      
      proc http::Event {sock token} {
          variable $token
          upvar 0 $token state
      
          # 1. How many bytes to ask for.
          set reqSize $state(-blocksize)
      
          # 2. Read.
          set block [read $sock $reqSize]
          set n [string length $block]
          if {$n >= 0} {
              append state(body) $block
              incr state(currentsize) $n
          }
      
          # 3. Check for end of data.
          if {$state(currentsize) >= $state(totalsize)} {
              Eof $token
          }
          return
      }
      
      The bug can be worked around by precisely specifying the size of the
      untransferred response body.
      
          # 1. How many bytes to ask for.
          set reqSize [expr {$state(totalsize) - $state(currentsize)}]
      
      This workaround fails if reqSize is capped at $state(-blocksize):
      
          # 1. How many bytes to ask for.
          set reqSize [expr {min($reqSize, $state(-blocksize))}]
      
      When the hanging occurs, more than $state(-blocksize) bytes can be available,
      (if -blocksize is 4096) but they are not returned by [read] until timeout.
      
      The properties read by [fconfigure $sock] (when added to http::Event) are:
        -blocking 0
        -buffering full
        -buffersize 8192
        -encoding binary
        -eofchar {{} {}}
        -translation {lf crlf}
      The last three properties correspond (for reading) to the results of the command
        fconfigure $sock -translation binary
      
      read(n) describes non-blocking mode with two arguments:
      
            read channelId numChars
      
        If  channelId is in nonblocking mode, the command may not read as many
        characters as requested: once all available input has been read, the command
        will return the data that is available rather than blocking for more input.
        If the channel is configured to use a multi-byte encoding, then there may
        actually be some bytes remaining in the internal buffers  that do not form
        a  complete character.  These bytes will not be returned until a complete
        character is available or end-of-file is reached.  The -nonewline switch is
        ignored if the command returns before reaching the end of the file.
      
      The hanging occurs even with a binary resource, fetched with -encoding binary,
      so the multi-byte issue does not arise.  There is no problem with http, only
      with https where [tls::socket] is used in place of [socket]. read(n) makes
      clear that in nonblocking mode, the command will not wait to receive the number
      of characters requested.
      
      Example code that demonstrates the delay:
      
      # The http package sets both the -buffersize for the socket, and the number of
      # bytes requested with [read], to the http::geturl option -blocksize, which has
      # default value 8192.
      
      package require http
      
      set start [clock milliseconds]
      
      proc http::Log {args} {
          set time [expr {[clock milliseconds] - $::start}]
          puts stderr [list $time {*}$args]
          flush stderr
          return
      }
      
      package require tls
      http::register https 443 [list ::tls::socket -ssl2 0 -ssl3 0 -tls1 1 -tls1.1 1 -tls1.2 1]
      
      proc GetFromWeb {blocksize url} {
          set ::prevSize 0
          set token    [::http::geturl $url     \
                         -blocksize $blocksize  \
                         -keepalive 1           \
                         -progress httpProgress \
                         -headers {accept-encoding unsupported} \
          ]
          array get $token
          # N.B. Implicit Return
      }
      
      proc httpProgress {token total current} {
          upvar 0 $token state
          set msg {, and therefore will not demonstrate the bug.}
      
          if {    [info exists state(transfer)]
               && ($state(transfer) eq "chunked")
          } {
      	puts "The response uses chunked transfer encoding, $msg"
          } elseif {$total == 0} {
      	puts "The server has not reported the size of the entity, $msg"
          }
          if {$state(connection) eq {close}} {
      	puts "The server will close the connection, $msg"
          }
          set time [expr {[clock milliseconds] - $::start}]
          set extra [expr {$current - $::prevSize}]
          set ::prevSize $current
          puts "$time Fetched $extra bytes - accumulated $current bytes of total $total"
          flush stdout
      }
      
      
      set blocksize 8192
      
      # This URL serves (at least in the UK) a resource of about 300kB, unchunked, and
      # times out after approx 13s.
      
      set url https://www.bbc.co.uk/
      
      # These URLs demonstrate that http sites (using [socket]) do not
      # trigger the bug.
      
      # set url http://news.mit.edu/sites/mit.edu.newsoffice/files/styles/news_article_image_top_slideshow/public/images/2018/MIT-Debris-Disks_0.jpg?itok=kGim01Xz
      # set url http://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/03/30/theater/30threetallwomen2/merlin_135911256_e2911f33-8b35-445d-90ee-d15457c19fae-superJumbo.jpg
      
      # The corresponding https URLs do trigger the bug, but are inconvenient to use
      # because the server does not time out for about 10 minutes.
      
      # set url https://news.mit.edu/sites/mit.edu.newsoffice/files/styles/news_article_image_top_slideshow/public/images/2018/MIT-Debris-Disks_0.jpg?itok=kGim01Xz
      # set url https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/03/30/theater/30threetallwomen2/merlin_135911256_e2911f33-8b35-445d-90ee-d15457c19fae-superJumbo.jpg
      
      set start [clock milliseconds]
      set img [GetFromWeb $blocksize $url]
      set NUL {}
      
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    6. severity initialized to: "Important"
    7. status initialized to: "Open"
    8. title initialized to: "Buffering until timeout"
    9. type initialized to: "Incident"
  2. Ticket change [36ac572937] (rid 1346) by anonymous on 2018-04-01 14:17:03:

    1. icomment:
      The workaround has been applied to Tcl's http library in branch bug-46b6edad51-concurrent-http
      
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    5. resolution changed to: "Open"
  3. Ticket change [7b64ec9322] (rid 1347) by anonymous on 2018-04-01 19:53:58:

    1. icomment:
      This bug shows many similarities with the bug reported here:
      
      https://sourceforge.net/p/tls/bugs/38/
      
      and (cross-filed) here:
      
      http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/1945538fffffffffffff
      
      Regards,
      Erik Leunissen
      --
      
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  4. Ticket change [861701fd96] (rid 1349) by anonymous on 2018-04-02 02:21:24:

    1. icomment:
      Thanks, Erik.  Yes, it does seem to be the same bug.
      
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  5. Ticket change [5eac592725] (rid 1358) by anonymous on 2018-10-22 21:01:25:

    1. icomment:
      Hi,
      
      We have the same problem and I was able to pinpoint it after learning tcl channel frame.
      
      1. In "tlsWatchProc" of tlsIO.c, the condition to create timer is not covering all cases.  It should also check the BIO buffer.
      The line should read:
      if ((mask & TCL_READABLE) &&
          (Tcl_InputBuffered(statePtr->self) > 0 || BIO_ctrl_pending(statePtr->bio) > 0)) {
      ...............
      }
      
      2.  In "BioCtrl" of tlsBIO.c, the result of BIO_CTRL_PENDING should be:
      ret = ((chan) ? Tcl_InputBuffered(chan) : 0);
      NOT ret = ((chan) ? 1: 0);
      
      Second error caused BIO_ctrl_pending always return 1 even no data available.
      
      Please let me know after you push our the patch.
      
      Best,
      
      Jinhu
      [email protected]
      
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    4. status changed to: "Verified"
    5. type changed to: "Code Defect"
    6. username: "[email protected]"
  6. Ticket change [4d8c983355] (rid 1392) by rkeene on 2019-04-09 18:02:25:

    1. icomment: "Fixed in TclTLS v1.7.17+"
    2. login: "rkeene"
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    4. priority changed to: "High"
    5. resolution changed to: "Fixed"
    6. status changed to: "Closed"