Re: url library and GnuTLS, and Emacs-issued certificates

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> How bout merging the open-protocol-stream code directly into
> open-network-stream?  Then we can make open-protocol-stream an alias for
> open-network-stream, and (provide 'proto-stream) in subr.el.
>
> If the Gnus developers don't object, I propose to do this.

It sounds like a workable idea to me.  Since `open-protocol-stream' is a
superset of `open-network-stream', really, it should hopefully not break
other third-party usages of `open-network-stream', but I think we should
have a closer look at the `open-protocol-stream' logic to make sure
first.

But my immediate reaction is that this would be a good idea.

> (Also, gnutls.el should be changed to explicitly recommend that
> applications not use it directly, and we should merge net/tls.el and
> gnus/starttls.el; those two packages appear to be duplicates.)

Well, they aren't duplicates per se.  tls.el does straight up TLS, while
starttls.el does STARTTLS.  The way starttls.el interfaces with the
external programs is pretty hairy (doing some unencrypted traffic, then
sending a signal to the program, and then doing encrypted traffic), and
probably deserves its own elisp file, I think.

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