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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: 24075@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24075: tls/https support in Guile (through r6rs binary ports?)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:55:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760rss8al.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)

Guile lacks https support by default, which is a really glaring omission
in any modern language!  I've submitted some code adapted from Guix
previously as a step towards adding https support:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-09/msg00031.html

While it can be pulled off through some gnutls hacks, these have
problems.  Unfortunately, it seems that the file descriptor is leaked:

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20145

I've been told on IRC that the "right solution" is to add r6rs style
binary ports:

  http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib-Z-H-9.html

So maybe that's what should be done?

Anyway, I think this is one of *the most important things* that Guile
currently lacks.  (It's held me back from considering Guile as a serious
choice for at least one project, myself!)  Hope it can be fixed!

 - Chris





             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-26 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-26 15:55 Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-08-04 20:37 ` bug#24075: tls/https support in Guile (through r6rs binary ports?) Andy Wingo
2016-08-21 15:58   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-05 18:39     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-05 19:02       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-06 17:37         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-06 21:13           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-07 18:14             ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-07 20:13               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-06 18:32         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-06 21:06           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-07  4:40             ` Christopher Allan Webber

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