I'm a newbie at socket programming so this is probably going to be an easy question (I hope). I've been developing a client/server project using SSLeay and I'm having problem synchronizing my messages. More specifically, I use a combination of SSL_read and SSL_write to exchange messages bix my client and server. The problem is that my client is reading (SSL_read) before the server is done writing and reads an empty buffer. This does not occur all the time but often enough to make things quite unreliable... I've tryed using the select() command but that doesn't solve it. Help.....

Andre

This is generally true of sockets programming. You don't know that you'll get as many bytes as you request. The simplest solution is to loop your read calls until you get what you need. See BSD Sockets: A Quick & Dirty Primer for a sample solution. The URL is http://www.ntua.gr/unix/sockets.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Russell Ross email: rross@sci.dixie.edu 1260 N 1280 W voice: (801)628-8146 St. George, UT 84770-4953