[Zope] https and ZClient

[John E. Vincent]

I would also take a look at stunnel. You can wrap just about anything in
this and it supports client certificates as well. I set it up this weekend
to wrap my imap services. I could also see this as an option for an
ssl-ZServer combination without apache (although I'm still not ready to
throw out apache JUST yet ;) ).

Here's a link for you:
http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Martijn Pieters wrote:

> From: Petru Paler <ppetru@coltronix.com>
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:43:02AM -0600, Jim Sanford wrote:
> > > Would it be correct to assume that ZClient cannot access URLs via
> https (SSL)?
> >
> > No.
> 
> From: Jim Sanford [mailto:jsanford@atinucleus.com]
> > So are you saying that although Zope cannot serve SSL it can 
> > be a SSL client?
> > 
> > I have a situation where I am using zclient to try and 
> > retrieve a Word Document fromr corporate extranet via https. 
> > I get an error.
> 
> I think Petru meant that you cannot use ZClient as a SSL client. Indeed,
> you can't. I believe that libraries like OpenSSL do include command line
> clients though.
> 
> You can also have a look at M2Crypto, a Python SSL library build on
> OpenSSL, which includes SSL extensions to the standard Python HTTP
> client libraries. You can download it from:
> 
>   http://mars.post1.com/home/ngps/m2/
> 
> 

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