documentation for open socket using certificate and key, sccept only ssl

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-05-03 01:31, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Try 'secure socket' rather than 'open socket' (v6.6 and above)
>> 
> 
> According to the dictionary in 7.0.4, secure socket is used after the
> socket is opened.
> 
> It also causes a sudden crash of livecode itself when attempting to 
> execute
> . . .
> 
> now  bug 15314 <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15314>

The 'secure' socket syntax was added to support SSL over HTTP proxies 
which require an unencrypted stream to become a secure stream at a 
specific point. (This method essentially means, even over a proxy, any 
SSL stream is still between the two end-points, the proxy in the middle 
just becomes a transport for the encrypted data on which it cannot 
introspect).

It looks like you've hit a use-case which hasn't been tested - the proxy 
case is always the client calling 'secure socket' (as the server - the 
proxy - controls when it expects the SSL protocol to start). The example 
you've posted won't work, as the both sides need to 'secure' at the same 
time in the byte-stream - but it shouldn't crash :)

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