secure login on web

[Chris Gonnerman]

I have a fresh install of Python 2.1, and I already had OpenSSL installed,
but I don't find any SSL modules installed, nor does the source archive
seem to have one.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olav Bandmann" <olav at sics.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: secure login on web


> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > Brian Lee <senux at senux.nospam> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > With Python, I want to write a code to make a secure login
> > > on web. How can I do that with Python? Is there any related
> > > Python module?
> > 
> > It's not quite clear to me whether you're talking about the client or
> > server end of things.  The httplib module is useful for web clients.
> > For the server end there are various options - CGI (with the help of
> > the CGI module), the Zope server, mod_snake or mod_python for Apache,
> > or similar extensions for IIS.
> 
> If you're talking about client side ("session-persistent") SSL login,
> you
> should check out "webbot.py" at
> http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Webbot/
> as an example.
> 
> > I assume by 'secure login' you mean that login information should be
> > sent over an SSL connection.  httplib doesn't support SSL 'out of the
> > box', but I think you can add that capability using one of the modules
> > listed at <http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?find=ssl>.
> 
> You will need to install OpenSSL anyway (if you haven't installed it
> already).
> After that, all you need to do is to recompile your fresh copy of Python
> 2.1.
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> 
>