SSL support

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at linpro.no
Tue Mar 4 10:47:40 CET 2008


Per Andreas Buer <perbu at linpro.no> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at linpro.no> writes:
> > Actually, it would be very complicated...
> Oh. I guess I'm wrong, then. I though it was the simple matter of
> linking in some SSL library and let it do its magic. Whats the
> complication?

We would need to add a translation layer between the code that talks
to the client and the code that handles requests.  The former is not
entirely centralized, so some cleanup would be required.  Performance
would suffer, possibly even in the non-SSL case.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no



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