Sounds like a good plan. I'm not a great coach though since I didn't write _ssl.c and I've never used openssl directly. But I can help you with the Python stuff of course!
--Guido On 8/15/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd really like an excuse to implement server-side SSL support one of > these days. Could that be a sprint activity? Probably against 2.6 (I > doubt the Modules/_ssl.c file will change much for 3K). > > The idea is that if you call socket.ssl() on a socket that's bound to > an address, the socket is assumed to be server-side, the cert passed > in is assumed to be a server-side cert, and the SSLObject returned has > a couple of extra methods, listen() and accept(). Calling accept() does > the SSL dance with the remote side, and returns an SSLObject. > > Does this need a PEP? > > Bill > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
