[Python-Dev] Proposal for better SSL errors (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun May 27 11:08:37 CEST 2012


On Sat, 26 May 2012 19:31:55 -0700 "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

There is a long term caveat to the overall approach: It still leaves the exception details being OpenSSL specific. If someone wants to ditch OpenSSL and use something else such as NSS (for example) in a future ssl implementation what would its exception error info story look like?

That's a general issue with the ssl module. Unless we come up with our own API and abstraction layer (which has a cost in design effort and risks), we're following the OpenSSL architecture (e.g. the SSLContext idea).

Regards

Antoine.



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