[Python-Dev] Future of SSL

[Guido van Rossum]

> I think that if OpenSSL is available, Python should build "out of the
> box" with SSL support.  This is becomming more and more important with 
> projects I'm working on, especially with SOAP and XML-RPC.  This
> doesn't mean someone shouldn't be able to replace it, and we should
> always define an API, but... I think we need to work out of the box.

Good point.  That's how the SSL support is configured now, and that's
how it should continue to work.

(Note that, alas, the DB-API never made it this far -- we still
haven't been able to find the time to do the tedious work of moving
the various database adapters in the core distribution. :-( )

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)