Re: [libmicrohttpd] Anyone wants openssl support in libmicrohttpd?

[Evgeny Grin]

And, if possible, keep API additions in generalized form.
Refrain from OpenSSL-specific where possible.
This will allow to simplify HTTPS usage from application side and allow to add 
support for more TLS-libs in future.
Ideally, application, that linked against libmicrohttpd, should use some 
generic API for HTTPS and should not care about specific lib used by 
libmicrohttpd.
Hope that Christian will agree with me.

OpenSSL is definitely one of most widely-used TLS lib, but TLS-lib choices are 
not limited to it:
* NSS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS
* LibreSSL http://www.libressl.org/
* mbed TLS https://tls.mbed.org/
* MatrixSSL http://matrixssl.org/
* Botan http://botan.randombit.net/
* Windows SSPI 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/windows/desktop/aa380493.aspx
Some of them can be better in license or footprint aspects.

-- 
Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin


04.11.2015, 20:40, "Christian Grothoff" <address@hidden>:
> Ok, sounds to me like we certainly have a critical mass of volunteers to
> review the patch, give feedback and help clean it up. So Olaf, now it's
> just up to you to provide a convincing patch. Note that the goal should
> be to make the result clean/neat, not the patch itself minimal. So if
> you want/need to move existing gnutls stuff around a bit to make the
> result nicer, that's totally fine. Oh, and please do include additional
> testcases, especially if you add OpenSSL-specific options.
>
> Oh, and even if this patch happens and is acceptable, GnuTLS will remain
> the default choice and what we will continue strongly recommend
> distributions to use, if possible (i.e. if GnuTLS is available for the
> platform).
>
> Happy hacking!
>
> Christian
>
> On 11/04/2015 05:39 PM, silvioprog wrote:
>>  On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Tomas Heran <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi.
>>>
>>>  Definitely count me in!
>>>
>>>  Cheers,
>>>  Tomas
>>>
>>>  On 11/04/2015 10:50 AM, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  My employer considers implementing optional support for openssl as an
>>>>  alternative to gnutls in libmicrohttpd, as CoreOS apparently doesn't
>>>>  want to ship any SSL library besides openssl. So I need to solicit some
>>>>  feedback on whether anyone else would be interested in having openssl
>>>>  support?
>>>>
>>>>  -antrik-
>>  Me too! +1