On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Brendan Lloyd wrote: > And last but not least: can anyone clarify what the state of Apache > 2.0 is with regards to OpenSSL/mod_ssl? I've read in some places that > Apache 2.0 supports/includes these, but then when I went to download > the Windows binary distribution it had the suffix "no_ssl"?
Source distributions of Apache 2.0 include mod_ssl. Binary distributions are a different story, but only because of ambiguities surrounding the (IMHO silly) export restrictions of the US government. We know we're allowed to export *source* for strong encryption software... but whether we're able to legally distribute *binaries* of strong encryption software is unclear. So we don't. Of course, that's more of a burden on our Windows users than on our Unix users, since the former tend to rely on binaries and the latter tend to roll their own since they tend to have the compilation tools on hand. The solution, as has been pointed out, is that somebody outside the US contributed binaries for mod_ssl for Apache 2.0 on Win32 and uploaded them to www.modssl.org/contrib, which is physically located in Germany, as opposed to www.apache.org, which is physically located in the western US. Sigh. --Cliff ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
