[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Python 3000 Sprint @ Google

[Guido van Rossum]

Sounds like a good plan. I'm not a great coach though since I didn't
write _ssl.c and I've never used openssl directly. But I can help you
with the Python stuff of course!

--Guido

On 8/15/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> 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?
>
> Bill
>


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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)