INN and SSL

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Jeffrey,

> Julien was kind
> enough to note for you the only SSL-specific change lately

Thanks but the patch I put in my last mail was not committed
because it is not a perfect solution to the problem of
hanging when posting an article:  it breaks the IDLE timer.


> I'm not sure about the complaints Gabi has about the INN SSL support.  I
> wouldn't be surprised to learn there's some difficulty (since a lot of the
> deployed client code out in the world predates the release of RFC 4642),
> but we'd be happy to look into it if provided specifics.

Well, "everything" is explained in a thread here (especially messages 6-19):

http://groups.google.fr/group/news.software.nntp/browse_frm/thread/53f4043e2bc0da8f


And one of the relevant bug reports is:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247226



It would be great to fix that problem (and beforehand to see whether it is
related to INN -- I tend to think it is).

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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