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Are there any current SSL libraries for Python?

Oct 21st, 2001 07:15
Gerhard Haering, unknown unknown, Michael Ströder, pehr anderson

Python has client-side SSL capabilities since version 2.0. On Unix they
will be compiled into the socket module if you have the OpenSSL
libraries and headers installed. On Windows, you'll have to recompile
Python yourself.
Python's SSL support is very limited, so there are several other
libraries that provide more features, like server-side SSL or proper
certificate handling:
M2Crypto: http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/m2/
Python OpenSSL wrappers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pow
pyOpenSSL: http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/