On 2/15/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HTTPS is orthogonal. Besides, how would you support it in the stdlib? It's > currently not possible to write an SSL server in Python without a third-party > library. Maybe someone would be interested in rectifying /that/? :)
Yes, why do't you volunteer? Theer's absolutely no fundamental reason why we can't support server-side SSL when we do support client-side SSL in httplib.py, except that someone has to write the code -- the same OpenSSL library can be used. Well, I can see one *practical* reason -- server-side SSL use probably requires a lot more OpenSSL APIs to be exposed. Also, managing an SSL server *securely* requires much care. So perhaps having to use an external library (pyopenssl or m2crypto) could be appropriate. But it's nothing fundamental. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
