buildsystem stuff

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 17:04 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 5/5/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > If you want the code that does the 2-way auth via ssl certs you should
> > look at m2crypto. CCing this to icon so he can tell you where to look
> > for the code.
> 
> http://www.linux.duke.edu/~icon/misc/xmlrpcssl.py
> 
> NB: Apparently almost every m2crypto package that has shipped with
> Fedora Core is a little broken in the sense that establishing HTTPS
> connections doesn't work. The only way to make it work is to rebuild
> the 0.13-2 package currently in rawhide, though, very humorously, it
> doesn't work with python-2.4 because of this bug:
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2840
> 
> I've filed the problem in rh bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156979
> 
> You'll need to get a working version of m2crypto on your system before
> you can use this code.

That rocks, Thanks Icon! Having a 2-way ssl cert-auth xml-rpc class
should make lots of little authenticated utilities a lot easier.

-sv