[Twisted-Python] Twisted+M2Crypto patch

[Eugene Coetzee]

J C Lawrence wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:50:13 -0400 
>Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 17:40, James Y Knight wrote:
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>>So, PyOpenSSL should plug into the reactor as a transport, but all
>>other (saner) Python SSL implementations ought to plug in as a
>>protocol.
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>Ahem.  SSL in this parlance is just a TCP connection form with more
>dependencies (keys) failure modes (negotiation failures).  The protocol
>that flows over the SSL/TCP connection is arbitrary (eg HTTP, telnet,
>SMTP, etc).
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I have to agree.

Conceptually Secure Socket Layer is a special kind of socket. You never 
open a SSL connection by itself - you open a FTP session over SSL.

Implementing SSL as a protocol means that inside Twisted you will 
probably have to somehow chain two protocols  together  i.e. ftp  -> 
ssl  before you transport.

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