Hello:

> A network "port" object for ssl could be created in the existing
> remote implementation architecture, though a little research might be
> necessary to handle the auxiliary sockets for events, but it wouldn't
> handle backwards compatibilities.

Excuse my ignorance, why not ??

> and doesn't address the data compression issue.

If i'm not wrong OpenSSL supports two compressions algorithms
(GZIP and RLE, but i maybe wrong)

There is an RFC for the compression over TLS (using the deflate
algorithm) RFC 3749.



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Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Vigo-Spain

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