[omniORB] SSL information in Python

Sander Steffann sander at steffann.nl
Sat Feb 21 18:09:40 GMT 2004


Hi Duncan,


> > Does anybody know a way to access the SSL connection info from Python? I
> > would like to write an interceptor to verify the client certificate and
to
> > use the information in the certificate to determine if the call should
be
> > allowed or not.
>
> You can't, I'm afraid. SSL information isn't currently available to
> Python. If you're able to resort to C++, you could write the
> interceptor in C++ and it would work for Python servers.

I understand, but since I started working with Python (because of omniORB
btw) I got addicted to it :)

> I'd welcome contributions that added it to the Python binding...

Do you have any examples (or other starting points) that I can look at?

Thanks,
Sander.




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