[Python-Dev] Simple XML-RPC server over SSL/TLS

[Bill Janssen]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > But what I would like to know, is if is there any reason why XML-RPC can't
> > optionally work over TLS/SSL using Python's ssl module. I'll create a
> > ticket, and send a patch, but I was wondering if it was a reason why this
> > was not implemented.
> 
> I think there’s no deeper reason than nobody thought about it.  The ssl
> module is new in 2.6 and 3.x, xmlrpc is an older module for an old
> technology *cough*, so feel free to open a bug report.  Patch guidelines
> are found at http://docs.python.org/devguide  Thanks in advance!

What he said.  I'm not a big fan of XMLRPC in the first place, so I
probably didn't even notice that there wasn't SSL support for it.

Go for it!

Bill