SSL from Dolphin

Is there a good way to communicate over SSL? In particular, I'd like to
connect to a Web server securely (transmitting XML).

I saw that there was a package from Chris Double at:
http://www.double.co.nz/smalltalk/, but it's a few years old.

Thanks!

Jen

Jen Wu wrote:

> Is there a good way to communicate over SSL? In particular, I'd like to
> connect to a Web server securely (transmitting XML).

You might be able to call upon the COM -interface of
Internet Explorer and thus get a robust SSL
implementation for free.

I haven't tried it, but if anybody does, I'd be interested
in hearing about the results.

Thanks
-Panu Viljamaa

Jen,

>> Is there a good way to communicate over SSL?

IMHO, the best option is OpenSSL.


 >> In particular, I'd like to
>> connect to a Web server securely (transmitting XML).

I do not have any experience using XML to talk to web servers, but I do
use OpenSSL to download files from Apache using mod_ssl.  The bad news
is that I don't yet have a solution for exposing OpenSSL via Dolphin's
asynchronous sockets.  I suspect it would be a fairly simple matter to
clone Dolphin's "would-block" behavior using the OpenSSL equivalent.

Everything that I have seen about OpenSSL indicates that it is worthy of
the effort.

Have a good one,

Bill

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