[Python-Dev] Proposal for better SSL errors

[Cameron Simpson]

On 27May2012 11:29, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
| On Sun, 27 May 2012 12:00:57 +1000
| Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
| > On 26May2012 21:28, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
| > | You'll note there is still a "Errno 5" in that error message; I don't
| > | really know what to do with it. Hard-wiring the errno attribute to
| > | something like None *might* break existing software, although that
| > | would be unlikely since the current errno value is quite meaningless
| > | and confusing (it has nothing to do with POSIX errnos).
| > 
| > It is EIO ("I/O error"), and not inappropriate for a communictions failure.
| 
| That's a nice coincidence, but it's actually an OpenSSL-specific code.

Oh.
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