Python ssl problem with multiprocessing

Question

I want to send data from a client to the server in a TLS TCP socket from multiple client subprocesses so I share the same ssl socket with all subprocesses. Communication wor

Answer 1

The problem is that you're re-using the same connection for both processes. The way SSL encrypts data makes this fail -- the two processes would have to communicate with each other about the state of the shared SSL connection. Even if you do make it work, or if you didn't use SSL, the data would arrive at the server all jumbled up; you would have no real way of distinguishing which bytes came from which process.

What you need to do is give each process its own SSL connection, by making the connection in subproc.do. Alternatively, don't have the subprocesses communicate with the server at all, but rather communicate with the main process, and have the main process relay it over the SSL connection.