hi,
in indymedia (http://indymedia.org) and sindominio (http://sindomino.net) we saw the necessity to protect the admin part of mailman (above all the password transmission) with a ssl connection. i figured out that vanilla-mailman doesn't support this feature (http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg16301.html) so i dived into the mailman sources and figured out a possible solution. it seems to me that the best way to achieve ssl connections for the admin is putting a condition in ScriptURL() in Utils.py.
if((0 != mm_cfg.DEFAULT_ADMIN_USE_SSL) and (target[0:5] == 'admin')): web_page_url = replace(web_page_url, 'http:', 'https:')
as you see a new paramerter DEFAULT_ADMIN_USE_SSL has been added to Default.py. i tested this on the lists of both projects and it's working fine. as i'm sure that there are more ppl out there who would like this feature i ask you whether you are interrested in adding it to the mailman distribution. a patch for Utils.py v2.1.1 is attached to this mail.
/matze
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