Re: keeping the outbound connection connected when client disconnects

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 08:34:02PM -0700, Rick Mombassa wrote:
> I am looking for a solution where I need to connect multiple times over
> time to a 3rd party POP3 SSL server using my webmail interface, but that
> server only allows me to connect 5 times in 15 minutes.
> Meaning: I am looking for a solution where the outbound (real server)
> connection stays established even though the inbound connection (client)
> temporarily goes away. imapproxy provides such functionality but cannot
> be used for other reasons.
> 
> Perdition looks like a good solution, but whenever the client terminates
> the connection, the associated process terminates as well. On the other
> hand I see config parameters such as "timeout" that lead me to the
> assumption it could be possible to set up what I need.

Hi Rick,

the short answer is that it would be somewhat difficult for perdition
to provide what you are after.

The longer answer is that perdition forks a process after receiving
a connection from a client. In order to support the feature either

* This would need to be changed to use a core process that handled
  many connections. This would have other benefits, for example I expect
  it would allow perdition to handle many more concurrent connections
  that is currently possible. But it would be a major re-work of the code.

* Allow perdition to hand off connections to existing processes.
  This is probably easier to implement but I expect it would
  be a non-trivial change.
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