[swift-server-dev] Sockets API

Helge Heß me at helgehess.eu
Tue Nov 1 05:48:58 CDT 2016


Hi Daniel,

On 31 Oct 2016, at 02:55, Daniel A. Steffen <dsteffen at apple.com> wrote:
> 2) dispatch_io: this is a asynchronous IO facility built on top of dispatch sources (and advisory reads for disk IO)
> 
> I can easily believe that 2) might be too high level/abstracted and missing functionality for a server networking framework esp. around encryption (that is not what it was designed for)

you are the second one mentioning issues with ‘encryption’. I think I may be missing something here :-) What is the issue with layering TLS on top of channels?

Is it an actual issue with TLS/encryption itself or is all that ‘just' because integration with OpenSSL is harder?

Thanks,
  hh

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