[Interest] QWebSocketServer - server randomly stopsacceptingconnections

[Narolewski Jakub]

More recent discussion about this problem can be also found at:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58237


On Thu, 4 Apr 2019, 21:35 Jason H, <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:

> Yes. Gone are the days of security from obscurity. Minutes after standing
> up a AWS ec2 instance i was getting scanned. Easy way to get rid of most of
> that is don't be on a common port like 8080, port scans are less frequent
> but still happen. Also maybe deploy a reverse proxy to validate requests.
>
> But let's get that patch committed.
>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2019 at 8:32 PM
> > From: "Jakub Narolewski" <izowiuz at gmail.com>
> > To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> > Cc: "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: RE: [Interest] QWebSocketServer - server randomly
> stopsacceptingconnections
> >
> > Quick test and it looks like this is it. When I start my server in SSL
> mode and spam some ws connections at it I quickly loose ability to connect
> – even under Windows.
> > What’s more, trying to connect to SSL server using ws protocol does not
> emit any errors on the server side.
> >
> > Can situation on my remote test server can be attributed to bots and /
> or scanners? Our client forces only wss connections, so something else has
> try to connect to it.
> > Well, either this is QTBUG-57026 or some other, completely unrelated
> thing x]
> >
> > Hmm, this could be problematic. Either I will hack Qt sources or will
> try to use QTcpServer to hack around it.
> >
> >
> > From: Jason H
> > Sent: 04 April 2019 19:07
> > To: Jakub Narolewski
> > Cc: interest at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: RE: [Interest] QWebSocketServer - server randomly
> stopsacceptingconnections
> >
> > Wow, a P1 that was abandoned.
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/179030/
> >
> > **facepalm**
> >
>
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