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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Manager Online Learning Support Unit Middlesex University Business School [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 8411 5092 ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
