[Python-Dev] Simple XML-RPC server over SSL/TLS (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Apr 28 20:54:09 CEST 2011

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:

Hi,

> But what I would like to know, is if is there any reason why XML-RPC can't > optionally work over TLS/SSL using Python's ssl module. I'll create a > ticket, and send a patch, but I was wondering if it was a reason why this > was not implemented. I think there’s no deeper reason than nobody thought about it. The ssl module is new in 2.6 and 3.x, xmlrpc is an older module for an old technology cough, so feel free to open a bug report. Patch guidelines are found at http://docs.python.org/devguide Thanks in advance!

What he said. I'm not a big fan of XMLRPC in the first place, so I probably didn't even notice that there wasn't SSL support for it.

Go for it!

Bill

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