[Python-Dev] SSL support in _socket (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:29:46 +0100

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Checking the code it should be easy to do. I'll look > into this later this week. Great!

Done -- wasn't that easy after all, because the ssl object relies on the socket object.

Please review and test. The header file chaos at the top of socketmodule.* looks scary. It works fine on Linux, but I have no idea what the situation is on other platforms.

Side-note: I've added the "inter-module dynamic C API linking via Python trick" from the mx tools to the _socket module. _ssl only uses it to get at the type object, but the support can easily be extended if this should be needed for more C APIs from _socket.

Also note: the non-Unix build process files need to be updated.

> Funny, BTW, that the source file is named socketmodule.c > while the resulting DLL is called socket... I suppose > renaming socketmodule.c to socket.c would be advisable.

That requires asking the SF sysadmin a favor to move a file, or loses all he CVS history. So who cares.

I have left out this step. Perhaps Barry know a way to rename the socketmodule.* files without losing the history ?!

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