Message117045
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
>
>> pyOpenSSL is stable, in production use and
>> has a decent API. The ssl module is good enough for HTTPS client
>> use. pyOpenSSL provides a robust server side implementation with
>> all the required certificate and context handling needed for this.
>>
>> We could tell people to use the ssl module for clients and
>> pyOpenSSL for the server side and perhaps integrate the OpenSSL
>> package into the ssl namespace.
>
> In this case, this should be decided early, so that I know if I should
> continue caring about the ssl module or not. I'm not interested in
> maintaining potentially obsolete code.
I'll ask Jean-Paul and AB Strakt if they are up to contributing
the pyOpenSSL code to the Python stdlib based on a contributor
agreement. This would enable us to relicense the code undert
the PSF license even if the original code's license is not
changed.
Once that's a done deal, we can then consider moving in the above
direction. |
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2010-09-21 11:04:56 | lemburg | set | recipients:
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2010-09-21 11:04:54 | lemburg | link | issue8998 messages |
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