QSslSocket cannot read transmitted line(s)

[Niklas94]

Hi everybody,
I've got the probvlem that if I want to read the to my QSslSocket transmitted https-data, the call of QSslSocket->CanReadLine seems to return false. I don't haver any idea whrer this comes from, but it worked how it should and soddenly it didn't without changing anything and changing anything now brings no success.
Here is my code (CSSLConnection inherits QThread and is created from a QTCPServer in its' incommingConnection-function):


// Verbindung verschlüsseln
MSResult CMSSSLConnection::startSocketencryption()
{
m_pSSLSocket->setLocalCertificate("/home/niklas/Dokumente/MySchool/Debug_Ubuntu_x86_Desktop/MSHTTPSServer/myschool.crt");
m_pSSLSocket->setPrivateKey("/home/niklas/Dokumente/MySchool/Debug_Ubuntu_x86_Desktop/MSHTTPSServer/myschool.key.insecure");

m_pSSLSocket->startServerEncryption();
if(m_pSSLSocket->waitForEncrypted())
{
m_pSSLSocket->write("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"
"Content-type: text/plain\r\n"
"Content-length: 12\r\n"
"\r\n"
"Hello World!");
return MSR_OK;
}
else
{
Log->Error(QString("Cannot encrypt connection to %1: %2").arg(m_pSSLSocket->peerAddress().toString(),
m_pSSLSocket->errorString()));
m_pSSLSocket->disconnectFromHost();
return MSR_ENCRYPTION_ERROR;
}
}

// Neue Verbindung wurde aufgebaut
void CMSSSLConnection::acceptClient()
{
}

// Daten verarbeiten
void CMSSSLConnection::readData()
{
if(m_pSSLSocket->canReadLine())
{
// Anfrage zerlegen
QStringList request = QString(m_pSSLSocket->readLine()).split(QRegExp("[ \r\n][ \r\n]*"));

// Um welchen Anfragetypen handelt es sich?
if(request[0] == "GET")
{
// Einfache GET-ANfrage
QTextStream out(m_pSSLSocket);
out.setAutoDetectUnicode(true);
out << "HTTP/1.0 200 Ok\r\n"
"Content-Type: text/html;\r\n"
"\r\n"
"<h1>Nothing to see here</h1>\n";
}
}
else
{
Log->Error(QString("Cannot read line from %1").arg(m_pSSLSocket->peerAddress().toString()));
return;
}
}


So in fact, if I connect via firefox (https://localhost) the first message (Hello World) is transmitted, but the second one isn't. Instead of this, in my logfile it says "cannot read line form 127.0.0.1", but there is no exact error given.

The certificates are created like here: http://quickmediasolutions.com/blog/13/writing-secure-server-applications-with-qt, but I used only a length of 2048 for the key and the program should run on linux (ubuntu).
I hope you can help me.

[wysota]

Could you tell me what is the sense of this line?


QStringList request = QString(m_pSSLSocket->readLine()).split(QRegExp("[ \r\n][ \r\n]*"));

As in my language it says "read one line and split it on the 'new line' character". If you read one line how can it have any newline characters?

Analyze your code. Think whether it may happen that you receive the request in different chunks that you sent it, e.g.:

chunk 1:
GE

chunk 2:
T /index.html HTTP/1.

chunk 3:
1\r\nHost: mywonder

chunk 4:
fulhost.com\r\n

chunk 5:
\r\n


If you come to a conclusion that it might happen (I'll give you a hint: yes, it might) then look at your code again and see if it is able to handle that situation.

I can see this is some kind of school project so we're not allowed to give you complete solutions but such hint should be useful too.

[ChrisW67]

As in my language it says "read one line and split it on the 'new line' character". If you read one line how can it have any newline characters?

There is a space in the character class so the regular expression would have the effect of matching on one or more spaces.