Re: svn commit: r1492211 - /subversion/trunk/tools/server-side/svnpubsub/svnpubsub/client.py

2013-06-12 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:03 AM,  bre...@apache.org wrote:
 Author: breser
 Date: Wed Jun 12 14:03:00 2013
 New Revision: 1492211

 URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1492211
 Log:
 Revert r1492189, this isn't nearly enough to enable https support.

Yeah... I don't think asyncore can really handle SSL sockets. But
maybe using ssl.wrap_socket() could make it work. Override
create_socket(), provide some more params, etc.

Cheers,
-g


Re: svn commit: r1492211 - /subversion/trunk/tools/server-side/svnpubsub/svnpubsub/client.py

2013-06-12 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah... I don't think asyncore can really handle SSL sockets. But
 maybe using ssl.wrap_socket() could make it work. Override
 create_socket(), provide some more params, etc.

Client should probably support https even if server can't (yet)
because you can proxy the server through something like Apache httpd
to get SSL support.  In fact I'd expect places to do this in order to
put it on their preferred endpoint.