Jeff McNeil schrieb: > I apologize for not giving you a Python specific answer, but for the > XMLRPC services I've deployed, I front them with Apache and proxy back > to localhost:8080. > > I do all of the encryption and authentication from within the Apache > proper and rely on mod_proxy to forward validated requests on. I've > settled on basic authentication, but I see no reason why you couldn't > take advantage of mod_ssl.
There is an issue with forwarding SSL connections, of course: it is not possible - at least not with the same client identity as the original user. In turn, it's not easy to forward the identity of the authenticated user, either: even though Apache will know who he is, it has no way of telling on the forwarded request. So you would have to use CGI or mod_python in this case. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list