Jeff Trawick wrote:
On 6/16/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeff Trawick wrote:
> On 6/13/06, david reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The attached patch is a first pass at getting some support for using
>> openssl directly for ssl sockets within APR. I've tried to be
generic in
>> the basic configure code, but the actaul guts are basically openssl
>> related.
>
> What about an I/O layering system for sockets? This is in essence the
> set of function pointers used by the one true sockets API to call out
> to the details, as mentioned in other posts.
Only one question. If we are back to BUFF filtering from Apache 1.3, can
we at least go back to history and look at why it was replaced by
filtering?
(Or would lurkers care to speak up?)
The BUFF API was completely inappropriate for the types of
transformations needed in httpd, and the requirement for plug and play
of arbitrary transformations was more than strong enough to warrant a
rewrite of the data handling around a more flexible API. (And
applications that want to play in that space have to embrace that more
flexible API.)
This discussion has just gone round and round in circles. How about I
simply do what I started out doing - add an ssl socket implentation to
apr-util. Once it's in, tested and working it should be easier to see
if/when/how we then integrate the code into better/simpler usage models.
I assume that no-one will object to that approach?
