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Various items; begin writing the SSL section

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2008-04-15 02:24:15 +00:00
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@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ their own implementations of buffering and text I/O.
:pep:`3116` - New I/O
PEP written by Daniel Stutzbach, Mike Verdone, and Guido van Rossum.
XXX code written by who?
Code by Guido van Rossum, Georg Brandl, Walter Doerwald,
Jeremy Hylton, Martin von Loewis, Tony Lownds, and others.
.. ======================================================================
@ -1096,8 +1097,6 @@ This is equivalent to::
A = foo(bar(A))
XXX need to find a good motivating example.
.. seealso::
:pep:`3129` - Class Decorators
@ -1854,6 +1853,10 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
environments. TIPC addresses are 4- or 5-tuples.
(Contributed by Alberto Bertogli; :issue:`1646`.)
A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address
and connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning
the connected socket object.
* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity
specified by the server's :attr:`timeout` attribute. (Contributed
@ -2042,15 +2045,21 @@ Improved SSL Support
--------------------------------------------------
Bill Janssen made extensive improvements to Python 2.6's support for
SSL.
the Secure Sockets Layer by adding a new module, :mod:`ssl`, on top of
the `OpenSSL <http://www.openssl.org/>`__ library. This new module
provides more control over the protocol negotiated, the X.509
certificates used, and has better support for writing SSL servers (as
opposed to clients) in Python. The existing SSL support in the
:mod:`socket` module hasn't been removed and continues to work,
though it will be removed in Python 3.0.
XXX use ssl.sslsocket - subclass of socket.socket.
To use the new module, first you must create a TCP connection in the
usual way and then pass it to the :func:`ssl.wrap_socket` function.
XXX describe parameters.
XXX Can specify if certificate is required, and obtain certificate info
by calling getpeercert method.
XXX sslwrap() behaves like socket.ssl
XXX Certain features require the OpenSSL package to be installed, notably
the 'openssl' binary.