Could the mirror sites not host ssl enabled version as they are not 
in the US as they are in the Uk, Austrailia etc?

On 16 Jul 02, at 0:50, Cliff Woolley wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Brendan Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > And last but not least: can anyone clarify what the state of Apache
> > 2.0 is with regards to OpenSSL/mod_ssl? I've read in some places that
> > Apache 2.0 supports/includes these, but then when I went to download
> > the Windows binary distribution it had the suffix "no_ssl"?
> 
> Source distributions of Apache 2.0 include mod_ssl.  Binary distributions
> are a different story, but only because of ambiguities surrounding the
> (IMHO silly) export restrictions of the US government.  We know we're
> allowed to export *source* for strong encryption software... but whether
> we're able to legally distribute *binaries* of strong encryption software
> is unclear.  So we don't.
> 
> Of course, that's more of a burden on our Windows users than on our Unix
> users, since the former tend to rely on binaries and the latter tend to
> roll their own since they tend to have the compilation tools on hand.
> 
> The solution, as has been pointed out, is that somebody outside the US
> contributed binaries for mod_ssl for Apache 2.0 on Win32 and uploaded them
> to www.modssl.org/contrib, which is physically located in Germany, as
> opposed to www.apache.org, which is physically located in the western US.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> --Cliff
> 
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