On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:50:19 -0500 (EST)
> From: Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Joe R. Jah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: htdig3-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Snapshot status, new query parser
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Joe R. Jah wrote:
>
> > > do checks for OpenSSL now and turn that on if it's found. This is
> >
> > Configure could not find mine, and reported its failure.
>
> Is it in a non-standard location? Where are ssl.h, libssl, and libcrypto
> found on your system?
The headers are in /usr/local/openssl/include, but I can not find libssl
and libcrypto; I have to reinstall OpenSSL.
> > > (Note to Joe Jah, the problem with the patches to 3.1.x to support
> > > other protocols is that large chunks of the code were never really
> > > intended for this.)
> >
> > I take it is planned to backport Joshua Gerth's code to 3.1.x;)
>
> No. That's my point--to do this, you'd have to take all of the htnet/ code
> and that's just silly. The 3.1.x code (and before) were really only
> intended to do HTTP and there are large chunks of code that make this
> assumption. Such backports would be massive and IMHO potentially cause
> instability--you might miss a section.
>
> This is my answer to the "ssl.3" patch you mention. I do not like the idea
> of having it in any proposed 3.1.6 release. If someone wants to patch
> their copy, great.
That makes sense; thanks for the clarification.
Regards,
Joe
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