[Net-ssleay-devel] Net::SSLeay::Handle 0.63(?) - added support for make_listening_socket

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Sampo,

Looks like eyck's patch attachment got lost somewhere: it didnt make it to the 
devel list. Did you get it? 

"eyck", can you resend it to the list?

Cheers.

On Saturday 30 June 2007 08:08, sampo at symlabs.com wrote:
> eyck writes:
> > Hello,
> >  I need a complimentary function to make_socket in Net::SSLeay::Handle
> > in particular to be able to handle both active and passive FTP I need
> > to be able to generate both client and listening sockets in uniform
> > manner (all the while being able to encrypt then on demand).
> >
> >  Attached is the patch that makes this possible, I'm using it roughly
> > this way:
> > $socket=Net::SSLeay::Handle->make_listening_socket("127.0.0.1",0);..
> > accept($sock, $socket);undef $socket;$socket=$sock;
> >
> >  I imagine that using this extension creating STARTLS-like servers with
> > Net::SSLeay::Handle would be a breeze.
>
> No dobt useful. Since you are using ::Handle family, are you sure
> this functionality does not exist already?
>
> At any rate, active Net::SSLeay development nowdays happens in
>
> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/net-ssleay/
> net-ssleay-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> May be they can help you and get the patch merged.
>
> Cheers,
>  --Sampo
>
> >  Is there any chance for releasing this, or something functionally
> > similar on CPAN soonish?
> >
> > regards, Eyck
>
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