Pure Python HTTPS Server

[Trevor Perrin]

At 08:23 PM 2/27/2004 -0600, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:01:08 -0800,
>         Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:
> > I'm a little fuzzy about asynch stuff.  I don't think I can emulate a
> > file-descriptor to make it work with select().  What about an interface
> > where you can say "get any available bytes", with no blocking?  Is that on
> > the right track?
>
>The hard part is really the initial negotiation, which has to be
>interruptible in order to avoid making the entire server hang if a client
>disappears during the initial exchange of packets.

Yeah, I see.  I'll try to redo the handshake to support that, and let you 
know how it goes (I'll probably send some questions your way too, if that's 
okay... I'm sorta out of my element here).



> > Are you and Paul still looking at adding ciphers to stdlib?  That would
> > make me really, really happy :-)....
>
>No, unfortunately; the python-dev consensus was that encryption raised
>export control issues, and the existing rotor module is now on its way to
>being removed.

That's too bad.  Thanks for letting me know.

Trevor