On Wed, Oct 05, 2005, Neil Humphreys wrote:

> Hi I am developing a client and a server, that communicate over SSL. I would
> like the client to be able to send data to the server using compression. I
> would like to set this up at the bio level, so it is seamless (client
> compresses data, client encypts data, server decrypts data, server
> uncompresses data, but the user just as to provide the data). Has anyone got
> any advice / tips / example code ? Has anyone got
> SSL_COMP_add_compression_method() working? (or is there a better way?)
> 

You just need to compile OpenSSL with the appropriate options such as
zlib-dynamic and it should automatically negotiate compression in the ssl
library. The only restriction is that you cannot use SSLv2. You can test this
using the command line s_server and s_client utilities.

Steve.
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