[Zope] RE: External Editor/SSL

Casey Duncan casey@zope.com
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:03:59 -0500


On Monday 06 January 2003 02:13 am, Paul Browning wrote:
> Dusting off an old thread ....
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> --On 12 August 2002 15:01 -0400 Casey Duncan <casey@zope.com> wrote:
>=20
> > Ok then,
> >
> > What OS is the Zope (or more specifically Apache/IIS/Whatever) server
> > running  on and what version of openSSL or (insert your sll lib here)=
 is
> > it running?
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> I just tried the latest and greatest External Editor (V0.6)
> under Win XP but couldn't get it to work over SSL with the
> files (libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll, _socket.pyd) provided by
> the installer.
>=20
> However, if I instead used the files in
> <http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/misc/python22-win32-ssl.zip>
> then all is well.

I'll go and grab those and se if I can fix the release. Thanks!
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> I don't have much of an understanding of what is happening under
> the bonnet here and so can only offer this as a bit of
> empirical evidence.

I've had trouble locating versions of these dlls that work with 2.2.2. So=
 I=20
think you hit the nail on the head. Thanks.
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> >
> > This is actually the Python SSL library complaining about the server =
not
> > following the protocol correctly. This is a know issue on Solaris, an=
d
> > possibly other OSes given the specific openssl versions (and IIS too)=
=2E
>=20
> I was using it against a Linux box running RedHat 7.3. Our
> production boxes run Solaris - is this still known to be
> an issue?

I have a workaround in the client that should suppress this error (since =
it=20
doesn't affect its operation). Let me know if it still shows up in 0.6. I=
t=20
shouldn't.

-Casey