Re: SSL handshake error/timeout in HTTPAPI: is there a way to catch this and recover?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As you already know, it returns a value that indicates that the request 
failed.

So... when you get them, you can call the routine again to try 
again...     Not sure what you're looking for that you don't already know?

On 8/8/2023 5:14 PM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> I have a program that calls HTTPAPI (yes, I know, I seem to have a lot 
> of them), and a few minutes ago, it crashed while trying to parse an 
> empty reply buffer, with (and I should have saved the 
> /tmp/httpapi_debug.txt) something about an SSL handshake timeout as 
> the last debug message.
>
> The last HTTPAPI call was an "http_persist_req" with an opcode of 
> "PUT." The return code came back as 1, but the program got an empty 
> reply buffer.
>
> I suspect that another program on another customer box, that recently 
> crashed with a return code of 1 but an empty reply buffer, suffered 
> the same fate, but the debug file had already been overwritten before 
> anybody told me there was a problem.
>
> Is there a way for the calling program to detect SSL handshake 
> failures, so it can recover from them?
>
> --
> JHHL