[omniORB] omniORBpy + SSL

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 13 March, Nick Murtagh wrote:

> > Almost. If you are able to initialise the SSL things (certificates,
> > etc.), omniORBpy will happily use the SSL transport. Unfortunately,
> > you can't initialise the SSL things. Not from Python, anyway. I
> > haven't got around to exposing a Python API to the SSL set-up. If you
> > write a little Python extension module in C++ that initialises the
> > things you need, it should work OK.
> 
> Basically you would need to expose the sslContext::* stuff, right?
> I might have a go at this myself.

Yes. It's trivial if you only use the simple strings in sslContext::.
It becomes more tricky if you want to support custom behaviour by
deriving a new class from sslContext.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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