> > Back to the original question - discount SSH - how do we get > > compression + SSL out of openssl.. > > I don't think it's possible. OpenSSL says, in the NOTES section of > SSL_COMP_add_compression_method(3): > > The TLS standard (or SSLv3) allows the integration of > compression methods into the communication. The TLS RFC does > however not specify compression methods or their corresponding > identifiers, so there is currently no compatible way to > integrate compression with unknown peers. It is therefore > currently not recommended to integrate compression into > applications. Applications for non-public use may agree on > certain compression methods. Using different compression methods > with the same identifier will lead to connection failure.
However, there is http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-compression, but openssl doesn't support that (only zlib and rle) johannes
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