[plt-scheme] PLT Server - SSL available?

There is also a program called stunnel which forwards ssl connections
to a non-ssl connection (presumably on the same machine so the
unencrypted packets never cross the net).  You can use stunnel to forward
SSL connections to the PLT Web server.

Paul

At Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:37:43 -0700 (PDT), Noel Welsh wrote:
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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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