Expose SSL_write_ex

[webknjaz]

Hello, I see that SSL_write is exposed but SSL_write_ex isn't.

I think it's useful to have it for the purposes of solving pyca/pyopenssl#176.
(That is if I'm reading the docs right)

[reaperhulk]

We can expose this, but it's 1.1.1+ only. cryptography supports 1.1.0 so it'll need to be a conditional binding.

[webknjaz]

@reaperhulk thanks for the info! Any idea if sendall() can be implemented w/o it? I'm a little bit confused about whether there are any other ways to detect bytes that's actually been sent over the wire...

[reaperhulk]

@tiran may know the answer to this -- I don't know OpenSSL's TLS APIs well enough.

[webknjaz]

I think I've found what I was looking for, it should be possible with SSL_MODE_ENABLE_PARTIAL_WRITE set: pyca/pyopenssl#176 (comment).

[tiran]

Python's ssl module uses SSL_write. The function uses negative values to report errors and positive values how many bytes were written successfully. Then it's a matter of slicind and dicing the send buffer and loop until all data was written. Python doesn't use SSL_MODE_ENABLE_PARTIAL_WRITE.