[Zope] ssl support

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Thomas.Pasch@e-technik.uni-magdeburg.de wrote
> I think, this is a basic question. Is there any possiblily to use zope
> with ssl connections? I'm a beginner to that subject, but I wonder if
> you could perhaps configure apache so that the server is handling the
> en&decryption things. How to do that?

You'd need to run up something like Apache with mod_ssl to do the SSL
connection, then have it talk to the Zope process - either through PCGI,
or mod_pcgi.

> In addition, does the answer change when using ZServer? Would it be a
> good thing for zope to have access to the openssl library under python
> 1.5.2 and above? Is somebody working on this right now?

another alternative might be to wrap the ZServer inside stunnel, and have
stunnel do all the SSL bits. I don't know how well this would work.

Anthony