On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:58:02PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I was told that Tel-Aviv University is giving an interesting workshop > this summer: a workshop on writing free software. See: > > http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~eddiea/workshop-summer-2003.html > > According to that page, the students will be taught a bit about Linux and > free software (including a lecture by our esteemed friend, Muli),
I am not a TAU student but I would like to attend to the lectures. Assuming it is acceptable, can the times and locations get published? > I'm sure the teacher of the workshop will give them ideas, but I thought it > would be nice if people on this list could also raise ideas for project, > and I'll pass them on to the students (I know one of them). > I am not sure if the following is suitable for the workshop. It is also none Israeli related. Anyway, here it goes. 1) nut: The problem: http://www.exploits.org/nut can use ssl. Yet Debian has some licensing problems with the ssl package. I am not sure what the exact problem is. It could be looked on debian-devel. I believe it has something to do with the fact that using it prevents in some way linking with some other libs, although I might be wrong. In any case, the bottom line is that the Debian nut package is configured --without-ssl. The proposed solution, which is what can be done in the workshop: Have it use GnuTLS. I believe GnuTLS has wrappers for ssl, which might make it somewhat easier. On the other hand the end user should have a configuration option whether he want ssl or GnuTLS. 2) thttpd, http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/: Once again, I am not familiar with the details. I am also not sure where I seen it, probably at http://halplant.com:88/server/thttpd_FAQ.html, which I can not reach at this time. Anyway, IIRC, the problem is that making it to work with secure connections is tricky. The students might work this out. -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
