On 8/28/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If you can hold off one day before doing the trunk merge, I'm going to
> > > post a fix to the Windows SSL breakage this evening (PDT).
> >
> >
> > Too late, sorry, it's already checked in. You can revert the SSL bits if you
> > want, and take care to merge the proper changes later.
>
> No, that's OK.  I'll just (eventually) generate a 3K patch against
> what's in the repo.  Probably not this week.
>
> Here's my work plan (from yesterday's python-dev):
>
> 1)  Generate a patch to the trunk to remove all use of socket.ssl in
>     library modules (and elsewhere except for
>     test/test_socket_ssl.py), and switch them to use the ssl module.
>     This would affect httplib, imaplib, poplib, smtplib, urllib,
>     and xmlrpclib.
>
>     This patch should also deprecate the use of socket.ssl, and
>     particularly the "server" and "issuer" methods on it, which can
>     return bad data.
>
> 2)  Expand the test suite to exhaustively test edge cases, particularly
>     things like invalid protocol ids, bad cert files, bad key files,
>     etc.
>
> 3)  Take the threaded server example in test/test_ssl.py, clean it up,
>     and add it to the Demos directory (maybe it should be a HOWTO?).
>
> 4)  Generate a patch for the Py3K branch.  This patch would remove the
>     "ssl" function from the socket module, and would also remove the
>     "server" and "issuer" methods on the SSL context.  The ssl.sslsocket
>     class would be renamed to SSLSocket (PEP 8), and would inherit
>     from socket.socket and io.RawIOBase.  The current improvements to
>     the Modules/_ssl.c file would be folded in.  The patch would
>     also fix all uses of socket.ssl in the other library modules.
>
> 5)  Generate a package for older Pythons (2.3-2.5).  This would
>     install the ssl module, plus the improved version of _ssl.c.
>     Needs more design.
>
>
> I've currently got a patch for (1).  Sounds like I should switch the
> order of (3) and (4).

Until ssl.py is fixed, I've added quick hacks to test_ssl.py and
test_socket_ssl.py to disable these tests, so people won't be alarmed
by the test failures.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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