[swift-server-dev] Next Server Security API Group Meeting

[Chris Bailey]

Agreed - the ability to run non-blocking definitely a goal.

Chris




From:   Helge Heß via swift-server-dev <swift-server-dev at swift.org>
To:     swift-server-dev <swift-server-dev at swift.org>
Date:   30/01/2017 10:59
Subject:        Re: [swift-server-dev] Next Server Security API Group 
Meeting
Sent by:        swift-server-dev-bounces at swift.org



On 30 Jan 2017, at 10:59, Helge Heß <me at helgehess.eu> wrote:
> However, I thought - and I may be very wrong here, which would be 
excellent - that SecurityFramework only supported blocking read and write 
callbacks and cannot be ‘paused’ until new data arrives.

I’m just told off-list that this is not true. The lowest-level TLS API, 
Secure Transport, can be used in a non-blocking mode. Things like 
CFSocketStream and NSURLSession, actually use this facility to provide 
their async abstractions.

So I guess everything will be fine. Still the TLS API draft for Swift 
should state it as an explicit goal that it can be used in a non-blocking 
fashion.

Thanks,
  Helge

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