mf-hcafe-15c311f0c@etc-network.de wrote:
I am not aware of any SSL implementation in haskell either (even
I really find this rather surprising. Ocaml has a very decent wrapper around Openssl that works rather well so it can't be that hard.
though I think it should go not into HTTP but into Crypto (which is a neat piece of code, but needs a lot more work)).
But why shouldn't it should go into Network.HTTP? All I want to do is a HTTP POST of text/xml data to a HTTPS server and retrieve the text/xml data response and the HTTP response code. Whether that URL is HTTP vs HTTPS shouldn't matter. With a sane API I should just be able to change from a HTTP url to a HTTPS url and have it JustWork (tm). To have to use a different library depending on whether I'm doing http vs https is just horrible.
I can think of two "quick" solutions if you need your Haskell code to use an SSL link: run stunnel.org
Sorry, thats way too cludgy for my application.
and make your application connect to that, or write a Haskell wrapper around openssl.org.
I've used openssl directly from C and C++ so I know its doable, but I consider openssl a real blemish on the FOSS world. There is however this: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HsOpenSSL/0.6.5/doc/html/OpenSSL... Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/