Jeremy Hylton wrote: > > >>>>> "AB" == Anthony Baxter <anthony@ekit-inc.com> writes: > > AB> The whole subject of socket and SSL support came up at a > AB> lunchtime chat on developers day (and my jetlagged brain has > AB> totally failed to supply me the names of who I was talking to at > AB> the time...). Wouldn't it be better to rip the SSL support out > AB> entirely, and provide a way to hook the transport layer stuff on > AB> top of the standard socket object? > > It is certainly attractive to focus future development on a separate C > extension module. The current SSL support was included because we > thought it would be nice to allow people to open https URLs. The code > itself is problematic for many reasons, not least of which is its very > minimal feature set. But getting the right Python interface for a > large library like OpenSSL is a big task. I think it's better suite > for 3rd party libraries that the core (and such libraries do exist, > though I've never used them). FYI, I'm moving the SSL out of _socket and into _ssl.c. socket.py will then try to import _ssl, but move along if it cannot import that module for some reason. For true SSL support, you should look at M2Crypto. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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