What you describe is pretty much what I do. However the customer has some options regarding what he wants in response and this one is requesting a completed certificate be returned on the open connection if possible. That means I have to wait for another process to decide if that can be done. Even if the order automates (95%+ do) that means two to four seconds of idle time. It is someowhere in there I suspect the customer cuts the connection.

I could just create a bozo list and set his defaults to something closer to what his beahvior indicates he wants but I'd prefer not to. Judging from what I see in the "emergency" logs mentioned below looking for a SIGPIPE might be the correct solution.