asynchat and threading

[Jp Calderone]

On 26 Nov 2004 19:38:24 GMT, ngps at netmemetic.com (Ng Pheng Siong) wrote:
>According to Martin v. L�wis <martin at v.loewis.de>:
> > AFAICT, the main complaint is that it is tied to the TCP transport,
> > the sockets API, and the select/poll API. IOW, it cannot easily:
> > - integrate TLS on top of TCP (because TLS might involve no-data
> >    communications, e.g. when TLS negotation happens in the middle
> >    of a TLS session),
> 
> M2Crypto does SSL/TLS over Medusa/asyncore since 1999. ZServerSSL - SSL for
> Zope, which is Medusa-based - has been available since 1999 or 2000.
> 
> I don't imagine a pure Python TLS implementation is impossible to layer
> over asyncore either.

  For a more complete understanding of the complaints Martin is summarizing, see this python-dev thread:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/thread.html#49815

  Jp