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Both stages of Docs/net-http-over-tls.md (#25). IronRuby's OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket ran on a blocking SslStream. Its read_nonblock, write_nonblock and connect_nonblock never returned :wait_readable/:wait_writable, which are the only paths where net/protocol applies a timeout. So over TLS, read_timeout, write_timeout and the handshake's open_timeout never fired, and a stalled server hung the caller. ca_file, ca_path, cert_store and verify_callback were also ignored.

Non-blocking TLS (stage 2)

  • OpenSSL::SSL::Transport__ runs every read, write and handshake as one of SslStream's asynchronous operations, at most one of each kind in flight.
    • read_nonblock, write_nonblock (at most 16 KB handed over at a time) and connect_nonblock start one and answer :wait_readable/:wait_writable while it runs.
    • read, write and connect wait for one, bounded by read_timeout, write_timeout or the handshake timeout. Running out raises IO::TimeoutError and leaves the transport unusable.
  • IReadinessHook (Src/Libraries/Builtins/IoReadiness.cs) is a per-RubyIO hook. IO.select, IO#wait* and NIO::Selector ask it before the socket, and it wakes their waiter when its answer may have changed.
    • The transport is the TCP socket's hook, so a select on SSLSocket#to_io sees an operation finish.
    • It also sees bytes that SslStream holds but the TCP socket no longer shows. Asking whether a read would return starts that read, and what the read brings waits in a read-ahead (#pending).
  • SSLSocket#*_nonblock raise SSLErrorWaitReadable/SSLErrorWaitWritable, or answer the symbol with exception: false.
  • With that, upstream net/protocol applies all three timeouts by itself, unmodified, for Net and for RubyGems' vendored Gem::Net. Stage 1's net/protocol overrides were removed.
  • Thread#raise or Timeout.timeout during a blocking handshake cancels it, marks the transport broken, and raises the interrupting exception, not an SSLError.

Certificate verification, as CRuby/OpenSSL has it

  • The context's CAs are trusted through X509ChainTrustMode.CustomRootTrust, and the chain must allow serverAuth, as SslStream's own check does. The hostname check is kept.
  • verify_callback, as CRuby's ossl_verify_cb_call does it:
    • It is called once per certificate and error, root first, with an X509::StoreContext.
    • Only true accepts, and it clears the error.
    • The first rejection ends the check.
    • An exception raised by the callback is a rejection with a warning.
  • OpenSSL::X509 has the standard V_ERR_* constants, with OpenSSL's codes: 18 for a lone self-signed certificate, 9 not yet valid, 10 expired, 26 wrong purpose. Error 26 goes only to the certificate whose own extendedKeyUsage is wrong. Linux's .NET flags every certificate in that chain, which was the first Linux CI failure here.
  • post_connection_check checks the certificate's names, including IP SANs, and falls back to the common name when there is no subjectAltName.

Also

  • resolv on Windows asks for win32/resolv. ruby/4.0 has no copy of it, so the 1.9.1 one was loaded, and with it the old DL library and a parse warning on every require "net/http". Src/StdLib/ironruby/win32/resolv.rb now answers from System.Net.NetworkInformation.
  • socket.rb: an unused rescue variable (another parse warning) is gone.
  • Initializers.Generated.cs is byte for byte what ClassInitGenerator writes.

Not done: the server side (SSLServer, #accept), so puma over TLS still cannot run.

Testing

  • NetHttp_Tls1, NetHttp_TlsVerifyCallback1, NetHttp_PlainNoOpenSsl1, NetHttp_GemNetTls1 and Ssl_NonBlocking1 host their own TLS server in C#. It has a CA plus issued, client-auth-only, expired, not-yet-valid and CN-only certificates, and a plain HTTP port. They no longer silence $VERBOSE.
  • Ssl_NonBlocking1 covers a connect_nonblock loop, read_nonblock with IO.select, the read-ahead, write_nonblock into a server that reads nothing, and NIO::Selector over TLS.
  • On Windows / .NET 10 the full IronRuby.Tests suite has 0 failures.
  • Util/net-http-tls-check.rb against the CRuby server reports no failures for http or https, with and without CA=1.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added TLS support for HTTP connections, including certificate-chain and hostname verification, custom trust sources, verification callbacks, and configurable connection, read, and write timeouts.
    • Added nonblocking TLS connection, read, and write operations with readiness support for network polling.
    • Added TLS timeout support for RubyGems’ bundled HTTP client.
    • Added Windows DNS and hosts-file information lookup.
    • Plain HTTP requests no longer require OpenSSL to be loaded in advance.
  • Documentation
    • Updated TLS documentation to describe current support and limitations, including that server-side TLS connections are not yet supported.

Largo added 3 commits October 26, 2026 13:26
Stage 1 of Docs/net-http-over-tls.md. IronRuby's SSLSocket is a blocking
SslStream, so net/http's read_timeout, write_timeout and open_timeout (which
upstream applies only after :wait_readable/:wait_writable) never fired over
TLS, and ca_file, ca_path, cert_store and verify_callback were ignored.

- OpenSSL::SSL::Transport__ gets read_timeout=/write_timeout= (SslStream
  ReadTimeout/WriteTimeout) and a handshake timeout (AuthenticateAsClientAsync
  under a CancellationTokenSource). Running out raises IO::TimeoutError and
  leaves the transport unusable.
- Src/StdLib/ironruby/net/protocol.rb loads upstream's file unchanged and
  prepends ssl_socket_connect, rbuf_fill and write0 overrides for IronRuby
  SSLSockets, mapping IO::TimeoutError to Net::OpenTimeout/ReadTimeout/
  WriteTimeout.
- Transport__ validates against the context's self-signed CAs with
  X509ChainTrustMode.CustomRootTrust (others in ExtraStore, as Store#verify),
  keeps the name check, and lets verify_callback decide, called per
  certificate with an X509::StoreContext.
- post_connection_check checks the certificate's names (IP SANs included);
  for an IP address, which gets no SNI name, it used to check nothing.

Util/net-http-tls-check.rb against the CRuby server: no failures for http or
https, with and without CA=1. NetHttp_Tls1 hosts its own TLS server.
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Follow-up to the TLS timeouts and CA settings, from review:

- verify_callback is called once per certificate and error, root first, in
  the order OpenSSL meets them, as ossl_verify_cb_call: only true accepts
  and clears the error (verify_result is V_OK for a connection that stands),
  the first rejection ends the check, and an exception in the callback is a
  rejection with a warning instead of an exception out of #connect.
- OpenSSL::X509 has the standard V_ERR_* constants, and the codes follow
  OpenSSL: 18 for a lone untrusted self-signed certificate (19 in a chain),
  9 not yet valid, 10 expired, 26 the wrong purpose.
- The chain built against the context's CAs requires serverAuth, as
  SslStream's own check does: a certificate for client authentication only
  is refused.
- Thread#raise or Timeout.timeout during the handshake cancels it, marks the
  transport broken, keeps a late certificate check out of Ruby, and raises
  the interrupting exception instead of an SSLError.
- post_connection_check matches a certificate without subjectAltName on its
  common name, for an IP address too, and answers an empty name with
  SSLError.
- The custom X509Chain and the certificate copy are disposed.
- net/protocol's override checks for IronRuby's SSLSocket before naming
  OpenSSL, so a plain HTTP request no longer runs net/http's openssl
  autoload.
- The doc says that RubyGems' vendored Gem::Net gets none of this.

The test server now has a CA with issued, client-auth-only, expired,
not-yet-valid and CN-only certificates, and a plain HTTP port.
# Conflicts:
#	Src/IronRuby.Tests/RubyTests.cs
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The changes add asynchronous TLS transport operations, certificate verification, IO readiness integration, and runtime coverage. They also add Windows resolver methods and update TLS implementation documentation.

Changes: TLS Transport and Readiness

Layer / File(s) Summary
IO readiness hooks
Src/Libraries/Builtins/IoReadiness.cs, Src/Libraries/Builtins/IoOps.cs, Src/Libraries/Nio4r/Nio4r.cs
IO readiness checks and NIO selectors now query registered hooks and manage hook waiter registration.
Asynchronous TLS transport
Src/Libraries/OpenSSL/OpenSSL.cs
The TLS transport now supports asynchronous handshakes, reads, and writes; configurable timeouts; readiness reporting; read-ahead buffering; and certificate trust validation.
Ruby SSL verification and nonblocking APIs
Src/StdLib/ironruby/openssl.rb, Src/StdLib/ironruby/openssl/ssl.rb, Src/StdLib/ironruby/socket.rb
Ruby SSL APIs configure trust sources and verification callbacks, expose verification results, check hostnames, and handle nonblocking operations and timeouts. The socket change removes an unused exception variable.
TLS tests and documentation
Src/IronRuby.Tests/RubyTests.cs, Src/IronRuby.Tests/Runtime/NetHttpTlsTests.cs, Docs/net-http-over-tls.md
Runtime tests cover TLS trust, timeouts, callbacks, hostname checks, readiness, vendored Gem::Net, and plain HTTP. Documentation describes the implemented behavior and notes that SSLServer and accept remain unimplemented.

Windows Resolver Support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Windows resolver information
Src/StdLib/ironruby/win32/resolv.rb
Win32::Resolv adds hosts-file path lookup and retrieval of DNS search domains and name servers from active network interfaces.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SSLSocket
  participant Transport
  participant SslStream
  participant IOSelect as IO.select
  SSLSocket->>Transport: Start nonblocking handshake
  Transport->>SslStream: Begin asynchronous authentication
  Transport-->>SSLSocket: Return wait_readable while handshake runs
  IOSelect->>Transport: Query socket readiness hook
  Transport-->>IOSelect: Report handshake or read readiness
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The Windows resolver honors a configured DNS search list, and the non-blocking TLS write test now waits for real backpressure before asserting. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains.

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- The net/protocol overrides move to ironruby/net_tls.rb and work for any
  copy of net/protocol. RubyGems' vendored Gem::Net is loaded with
  require_relative, so SSLSocket#initialize installs them once it exists;
  Gem::Net::HTTP#connect makes the socket before ssl_socket_connect, so the
  first handshake is covered too.
- Linux's .NET flags every certificate of a chain whose leaf is for the
  wrong purpose; V_ERR_INVALID_PURPOSE now goes only to a certificate whose
  own extendedKeyUsage does not allow server authentication, as OpenSSL
  reports it. This was the Linux CI failure in NetHttp_TlsVerifyCallback1.
- Store#verify reports 20 again for a chain status with no OpenSSL
  equivalent, as before.
- resolv asks for win32/resolv on Windows. ruby/4.0 has no copy (CRuby's is
  built with its C extension), so the 1.9.1 one was loaded, and with it the
  old DL library and a parse warning. Src/StdLib/ironruby/win32/resolv.rb
  answers get_hosts_path and get_resolv_info from
  System.Net.NetworkInformation.
- socket.rb: drop an unused rescue variable (a parse warning on every
  require of net/http). The TLS tests no longer silence $VERBOSE.
- Initializers.Generated.cs is now byte for byte what ClassInitGenerator
  writes (the hand-written registrations lacked its trailing spaces).
IronRuby's SSLSocket answered every *_nonblock call by blocking, which net/protocol
took as "the data is here" and which stage 1 papered over with overrides that fed
net/protocol's timeouts to the blocking calls. Now the calls are what MRI's are:

- Transport__ runs every read, write and handshake as one of SslStream's
  asynchronous operations, at most one of each kind in flight. read_nonblock,
  write_nonblock (at most 16 KB handed over at a time) and connect_nonblock start
  one and answer :wait_readable / :wait_writable while it runs; read, write and
  connect start one or take over the one in flight and wait for it, at most
  read_timeout, write_timeout or the handshake timeout.
- IReadinessHook (IoReadiness.cs): a per-RubyIO hook that IO.select, IO#wait*
  and NIO::Selector ask before the socket, and that signals their
  ReadinessWaiter when its answer may have changed. The transport is the TCP
  socket's hook, so a select on SSLSocket#to_io sees an operation finish, and
  sees bytes SslStream holds that the TCP socket no longer shows: asking whether
  a read would return starts that read, and what it brings waits in a read-ahead
  that #pending counts.
- SSLSocket#read_nonblock, #write_nonblock and #connect_nonblock raise
  SSLErrorWaitReadable / SSLErrorWaitWritable, or answer the symbol with
  exception: false.
- The net/protocol overrides (Src/StdLib/ironruby/net/protocol.rb,
  ironruby/net_tls.rb) are gone: upstream's own waits now apply open_timeout,
  read_timeout and write_timeout, for Net and RubyGems' Gem::Net alike.

Ssl_NonBlocking1 drives a connect_nonblock loop, read_nonblock with IO.select,
the read-ahead, write_nonblock into a server that reads nothing, and
NIO::Selector over TLS. The existing TLS tests pass unchanged against upstream
net/protocol. Util/net-http-tls-check.rb: no failures, with and without CA=1.
@Largo Largo changed the title net/http over TLS: timeouts, and the context's CAs net/http over TLS: non-blocking SSLSocket, timeouts, and the context's CAs Oct 27, 2026
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ironruby/win32/resolv.rb now takes #28's version verbatim, which
ran in that PR's CI, so the two PRs add the same file.

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_broken under _sync before rethrowing the callback or SSL error, so subsequent
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Largo added 2 commits October 27, 2026 14:45
…SearchList

From review and the Windows CI run of 7f70634:

- Ssl_NonBlocking1 took the first :wait_writable for a full buffer. On
  Windows a NetworkStream write is overlapped I/O and is in flight almost
  every time, so the write finished within the following select and the
  socket was writable again. The loop now waits for writability and stops
  only when that wait runs out.
- A failed handshake left the unauthenticated SslStream in place, so a
  second #connect or #connect_nonblock found it and reported the socket
  connected. FinishConnect now marks the transport broken. NetHttp_Tls1
  connects twice to a server the context does not trust.
- Win32::Resolv.get_resolv_info uses the configured domain suffix search
  list (Tcpip\Parameters SearchList) alone and in its order when there is
  one, as Windows and CRuby's win32/resolv do; otherwise the machine's
  domain and the interfaces' connection-specific suffixes.
win32/resolv.rb was added on both sides: master's (#29) is this branch's
earlier version; this branch's adds the configured SearchList, so it is kept.
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