Re: https client

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Don Cohen wrote:
>  > 2) https access is currently not implemented in clisp. But the web consists
>  >    of more and more https.
>  >    For https, one needs SSL support with all its intricacies (TLS protocol
>  >    versions, certificate checking etc.).
> 
> I've used stunnel to solve this problem for a long time.
> It seems perfectly adequate and also reasonable.

stunnel is a daemon, right? What is the point of having a separate process,
for something that most programs do through library code?

Daemons are a hassle: if they are owned by the system, it requires privileges
to start them; if not, the functionality breaks when the daemon happens to
have crashed.

Bruno