Lighttpd

the network_openssl.c backend blocks the whole of lighttpd during send of a file.

On most connections this is not noticed since SSL_write will return SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE and the loop will break so that lighttpd can process the other connections. But on a local GB-lan using cURL (and also on the local loop using both wget and cURL) it is possible to completely lock up lighttpd during a file transfer over ssl.

The problem is that network_write_chunkqueue_openssl loops over all the data in the chunkqueue until SSL_Write complaints.

I have tried to remove the looping alltogether (meaning that lighttp would only send one block 64Kib before proceeding to the other connections) and that worked out just fine, I can see no slowdown when for example working with localhost so even though lighttpd no longer sends the data in a tight loop the performance seams to be mostly unaffected (probably due to the inherent bad performance in ssl anyways).