--On 2005-4-3 4:05 PM -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If one were going to add TLS dialing as a standard facility, I'd suggest adding it to cs, not dial, perhaps as a qualifier similar to "!r": tcp!host!ftp!tls. This would make TLS dialing available uniformly and immediately to all programs, without recompilation, and even to command-line usage.
But the trend is towards negotiating TLS after chatting over the connection a bit. IMAP, SMTP, and POP all have a separate command to start up TLS. (Yes, there is an unofficial "imaps" that I expect to slowly die out now that RFC3501 has made STARTTLS mandatory to implement.)
So adding "...!tls" to cs doesn't really solve the general case.
--lyndon
