[plt-scheme] PLT Server - SSL available?

If your servlet doesn't depend on the source IP address you could also just
run stunnel.

-Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Welsh" <noelwelsh at yahoo.com>
To: <ranga at goreliance.com>; <plt-scheme at tux.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] PLT Server - SSL available?


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> I'm not aware of any bindings for the OpenSSL library
> but this question has come up a few times before, so
> people are definitely interested.
>
> The basic approach is:
>
> 1. Create Scheme bindings for the OpenSSL functions
> (e.g.: Ryan Culpepper has bindings for 2 functions
> from the OpenSSL library in his Postgres driver)
>
> 2. Create a Scheme layer that mimics the current
> socket interface but using the OpenSSL bindings.
>
> 3. Parameterise the web server by the socket library
> (probably using units) so you can switch in different
> socket types.  I imagine the developers of the web
> server would help out here as SSL support is a fairly
> important feature.
>
> None of the above strike me as particularly difficult.
>  Writing C bindings, though, is very tedious.
>
> HTH,
> Noel
>
> --- Ranga Nathan <Ranga at goreliance.com> wrote:
> > Hi;
> > I am new to this list. At Reliance, thanks to Mike
> > Machenry and Mike
> > Burns we are using PLT web server for session
> > persistence. We would now
> > like to use SSL to secure the connection. Has anyone
> > installed SSL using
> > OpenSSL or any other module on PLT web server? If
> > not, could anyone
> > guide us?
> > Thanks.
>
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