[bug-myserver] Re: gnutls usage

[Simon Josefsson]

Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks Simon :)
>
> Before using gnutls, myserver was using OpenSSL for HTTPS, this is the
> reason why now we are using the gnutls-openssl wrapper.  Switch to the
> native gnutls API is in our plans but I didn't know that there are C++
> bindings.  Are they part of the official GNU TLS package or they are
> offered separately?

They are part of the official GnuTLS package, and has been for some
time, but not documented.  You can see the header at:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnutls.git/tree/lib/includes/gnutls/gnutlsxx.h

I'm not a C++ programmer so I don't know much about it, but I think it
would be useful if a C++ application programmer like you tried to use it
and provided feedback on it.  I will certainly try to help as best I
can.

/Simon

> Regards,
> Giuseppe
>
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Congratulations on the 0.9 release! :)
>>
>> I looked into MyServer's https support, and noticed that it is using the
>> gnutls-openssl wrapper library, which is somewhat under-maintained at
>> the moment.  It may be better to switch over to the native GnuTLS API?
>> Since MyServer appears to be written in C++, I'm wondering whether you
>> have looked at GnuTLS's C++ library and bindings?  libgnutlsxx.so is not
>> widely used as far as I know, so there could be rough edges, but I think
>> it would be a good test case to see if you can make it work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Simon