Re: [xml] [PATCH] Patch for https(ssl) support

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:13:27PM +0400, Àëåêñåé Èâàíîâ wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I  have  written the patch that supports working with https(SSL) for libxml
> (look attach). By applying the patch https support is included by default.
>
> After patch applying execute:
> $ autoconf
> $ autoheader
> $ ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...

  Hum, that's not the first time such support is suggested see the
previous threads about this:
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-May/msg00126.html
  and
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-May/msg00138.html

(easy to find when searching for 'https' in xmlsoft.org search engine)

  Currently the status quo is the following:
   - support for new protocols can be implemented on top of the
     existing I/O API by registering your own functions
   - I would prefer not to add a dependancy to libxml2 directly
     (especially for a crypto library :-)

that's basically what I stated when Mark Vadoc proposed his implementation
last year (BTW his code seems to work both on Windows crypto and OpenSSL
if I remember correctly). 
Now if there general agreement that the support should be added in libxml2
source, I would not block the consensus (but I may keep it configured off
by default at least in my builds). In that case I assume Mark have been
maintaining and running his own patch for a bit more than a year and that
one might be a good candidate for integration.

  Do we want to reopen this issue ?

Daniel

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