From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/url/url-https.el Date: 12 Apr 2004 12:30:11 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081765885 31756 80.91.224.253 (12 Apr 2004 10:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jas@extundo.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 12 12:31:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BCyij-0005Mo-00 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:31:17 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BCyij-0005yP-00 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:31:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BCxmY-0004KK-Tb for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BCxlt-0004Au-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BCxlg-0003el-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BCxle-0003dG-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 05:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BCyhb-0005nk-3c; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:30:07 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21523 Stefan Monnier writes: > Every case is unique, of course, but AFAIK, Tramp weas mostly > written to use SSH rather than FTP because SSH is secure thanks to > authentication and encryption. Yes, you can use it with rsh, with > su, etc, which do not use encryption, but RMS's poiint was that > ssl.el was written specifically for encryption and I thought Tramp > was pretty close in that respect. I use tramp actually most often with the su protocol, not ssh. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum