Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries
Date: 2006-04-12 17:42:51
Message-ID: 20060412174251.GJ4474@ns.snowman.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

* Andreas Pflug (pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de) wrote:
> I wonder if there are apps that actually use the ssl pointer, beyond
> detection of encrypted connections. So interpreting the result as bool
> would be sufficient.

I'm not sure if there are apps out there which use it for anything but a
bool but there's certainly a potential for apps to want to do things
like get the DN of the remote server...

Thanks,

Stephen

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Martijn van Oosterhout 2006-04-12 17:55:58 Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries
Previous Message Stephen Frost 2006-04-12 17:39:09 Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries