open secure socket... using certificate

[Mark Wieder]

On 1/26/21 6:05 AM, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode wrote:

> Is it really the case that for the past 6 years LC documentation has been
> misleading people concerning the implementation of certificates for secure
> socket connections?

Sadly, yes.

> 
> I notice in the Dictionary the entry for "open socket" in the table of
> options for this command has entries for "certificate" and "key", but these
> are both empty.  As if these features were meant to be implemented but were
> never implemented and the Dictionary was never updated to remove this
> misleading information.
> 
> I just find that hard to believe.

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13410

although the earliest bug report seems to be from 2006:

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3737

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com