On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Bill Janssen 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?
Maybe one of the three existing Python/SSL libraries should be stdlib- ified instead of starting another new one from scratch? Just a thought... James _______________________________________________ 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
