Re: ASIO SSL Memory Leaks

From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-09-01 17:19:58

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 19:05, John A via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello y'all,
>
> This is my first post to this listserv though I've been on others for ~30
> years. I have a Boost question, ob duh.
>
> Using the SSL_shutdown() outlined here:
> https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/man3/SSL_shutdown.html from within
> Boost, there isn't an object to associate with this shutdown call.
>

Async version:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/ssl__stream/async_shutdown.html

Sync version:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/ssl__stream/shutdown.html

If you'd like to discuss in more detail, I am on cpplang slack, monitoring
the #beast channel. Boost.Beast depends heavily on Boost.Asio in which the
above two methods reside.

https://cppalliance.org/#links

>
> Secondly, we have memory leaks (~10k bytes) using the SSL library via Boost
> socket calls using the ASIO SSL streams. What am I missing? What advisement
> can be offered?
>
> Ideally, we want to call SSL_shutdown() from within Boost, though I am
> missing something.
>
> Best regards,
> John
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