[Python-Dev] ssl module integration with asyncore (original) (raw)

Giampaolo Rodola' gnewsg at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 04:23:17 CET 2007

On 29 Nov, 03:27, Bill Janssen <jans... at parc.com> wrote:

> It does raise the same exception.

Hmmm, not in my version. > Are there plans for fixing this? Yes, it's fixed in my CVS, and I'll upload a new version to PyPI when I get a chance. > Using that kind of workaround is not acceptable in any case (select > module shouldn't even get imported when using asyncore). Well, that's what the fix in the SSL module will do under the covers, so if there's a reason not to do it, or a better way of doing it, speak now.

IMO, it's not reasonable since the application could use something different than select.select(), like select.poll() or something else again. I guess that the best thing to have in such case would be having an "ssl-ized" wrap of the socket which follows the same behaviour of a classical non-blocking socket, then it would be up to the application deciding what to do with it. That way the asynchronous application which wants to switch to a secure connection would just need to wrap the socket by using ssl.wrap_socket() without altering the existing code.

Note that I'm just talking about end-user API design. Actually I don't know what happens under the hoods so I'm not even sure which are the real implications.

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