>(Note this approach keeps compression code in BIOs without duplicating it >in ssl/, so applications can use the BIOs independantly too. Also, new >compression methods are easier to add - eg. define a libbzip2-based BIO >and add a new compression id+hook in the SSL/TLS code).
I agree with this. I´ve been several years using ZLIB to compress big files mixing ZLIB code with pkcs7 code in OpenSSL, and a ZBIO would be very useful. I think there is a lot of messages in OpenSSL user-list asking for something similar to this to handle big files, so I think all that people would also benefit of this zBIO. Also, OpenSSL is a big sized library now, so if separate ZLIB code must be in libeay32.dll ans ssleay32.dll a lot of applications (in windows specially) would be greater, and with Java around the cost of downloading binaries and the size of executables must be carefully watched. I´m aware I´m talking as a user here, and this is a developers list... Pablo J. Royo ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
