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[bug-myserver] Re: gnutls usage


From: Giuseppe Scrivano
Subject: [bug-myserver] Re: gnutls usage
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:09:01 +0200
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Hi Simon,

I was working on this task today, but unfortunately I noticed that the
gnutlsxx header is not distributed by Debian/Ubuntu (don't know about
other distro's) so I can't use it right now.  Are you aware of this
problem?

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thanks Simon :)
>>
>> Before using gnutls, myserver was using OpenSSL for HTTPS, this is the
>> reason why now we are using the gnutls-openssl wrapper.  Switch to the
>> native gnutls API is in our plans but I didn't know that there are C++
>> bindings.  Are they part of the official GNU TLS package or they are
>> offered separately?
>
> They are part of the official GnuTLS package, and has been for some
> time, but not documented.  You can see the header at:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnutls.git/tree/lib/includes/gnutls/gnutlsxx.h
>
> I'm not a C++ programmer so I don't know much about it, but I think it
> would be useful if a C++ application programmer like you tried to use it
> and provided feedback on it.  I will certainly try to help as best I
> can.
>
> /Simon
>
>> Regards,
>> Giuseppe
>>
>>
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Congratulations on the 0.9 release! :)
>>>
>>> I looked into MyServer's https support, and noticed that it is using the
>>> gnutls-openssl wrapper library, which is somewhat under-maintained at
>>> the moment.  It may be better to switch over to the native GnuTLS API?
>>> Since MyServer appears to be written in C++, I'm wondering whether you
>>> have looked at GnuTLS's C++ library and bindings?  libgnutlsxx.so is not
>>> widely used as far as I know, so there could be rough edges, but I think
>>> it would be a good test case to see if you can make it work.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> /Simon




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