Re: netclient-ssl

Re: netclient-ssl

[Dave Benjamin]

Hi Mykola,

> Does anybody can show an example of using Gerd Stolpman's netclient- 
> ssl? I'm especially interested in performing https call.

I think you posted this to fa.caml using Google Groups. Unfortunately, 
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To answer your question, I don't think it is very easy to do HTTPS using 
netclient-ssl - you have to write your own version of the HTTP protocol 
because Ocamlnet's HTTP and SSL support are not compatible with each 
other. You will probably have a much easier time using Curl:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl/

Good luck,
Dave

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Re: [Caml-list] Re: netclient-ssl

[Gerd Stolpmann]

Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 18:09 -0700 schrieb Dave Benjamin:
> Hi Mykola,
> 
> > Does anybody can show an example of using Gerd Stolpman's netclient- 
> > ssl? I'm especially interested in performing https call.

netclient-ssl? What's that? (Rhetoric question - such a library does not
exist.)

> I think you posted this to fa.caml using Google Groups. Unfortunately, 
> fa.caml is (or should be) a read-only copy of the messages on the 
> caml-list mailing list. I have copied this to the list so that others may 
> respond. You may wish to sign up to continue this conversation:
> 
> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list
> 
> To answer your question, I don't think it is very easy to do HTTPS using 
> netclient-ssl - you have to write your own version of the HTTP protocol 
> because Ocamlnet's HTTP and SSL support are not compatible with each 
> other. 

Yes. Unfortunately, netclient uses an older approach for doing socket
I/O where one cannot plug in SSL support. I have right now no time for
doing the necessary changes (unless somebody would pay me).

Gerd

> You will probably have a much easier time using Curl:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl/
> 
> Good luck,
> Dave
> 
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