From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [mange@freemail.hu: Use tls.el instead of ssl.el for HTTPS?] Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:06:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87hcy4mk1q.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> References: <871wp9mpqk.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161007818 5964 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 14:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mange@freemail.hu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 16:10:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZT9p-0007t9-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:09:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZT9p-0003aB-Qt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZT8A-0001ps-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZT87-0001ka-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZT86-0001k0-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.13.230.178] (helo=yxa.extundo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GZTH9-0007Mu-47; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:17:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id k9GE6vYV012034 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:06:58 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:22:061016:rms@gnu.org::8HSG69iuqwtIPw6V:0Hog X-Hashcash: 1:22:061016:emacs-devel@gnu.org::hA++UKrFK0fBsE7W:NUxd X-Hashcash: 1:22:061016:mange@freemail.hu::kaA+WjZQ+Dd1E/j+:YSJs In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 16 Oct 2006 09\:50\:39 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60790 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > It is probably bad to prefer ssl.el over tls.el in Emacs code, since > many people have old ssl.el laying around, and they may work less well > than tls.el. > > If URL works fine with tls.el, let's change it now to stop using ssl. > Magnus, would you please do that? > > Simon, do you think we should move ssl.el to obsolete? ssl.el is not part of Emacs and, as far as I know, never was -- but many people still have it installed. If someone could test that URL works with tls.el, that would be useful. But I have no idea how to test this... (url-retrieve "https://www.ibm.com/" 'princ) perhaps? Hm, yes, that appears to work, and appears to use tls.el too. /Simon