asynchat and threading

[Ng Pheng Siong]

According to Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de>:
> AFAICT, the main complaint is that it is tied to the TCP transport,
> the sockets API, and the select/poll API. IOW, it cannot easily:
> - integrate TLS on top of TCP (because TLS might involve no-data
>    communications, e.g. when TLS negotation happens in the middle
>    of a TLS session),

M2Crypto does SSL/TLS over Medusa/asyncore since 1999. ZServerSSL - SSL for
Zope, which is Medusa-based - has been available since 1999 or 2000.

I don't imagine a pure Python TLS implementation is impossible to layer
over asyncore either.

Cheers.

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