open secure socket... using certificate

Bernard Devlin bdrunrev at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 05:44:41 EST 2021


Thanks for confirming it Mark.

I feel like a sucker. I started on this project a few months ago on the
assumption that socket certificates now worked as they'd been included in
the Dictionary for years. I was away from development for a few years and
hadn't noticed the complaints that the Dictionary was misrepresenting the
situation.  Depressing to see my own name in that bug report from 7 years
ago, pointing out that secure sockets with certificates was something that
we'd been told was on the horizon in LC version 2, which must have been
around 2004.

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

Regards, Bernard


On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:57 AM Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>   Mark Wieder
>
>



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