Hi Todd, > I've been porting my "pure" Common Lisp MQTT client to Picolisp, and it has > gone > very well for non-SSL connections (I just used "connect"), but I am looking > for > a canonical way to connect to a SSL/TLS encrypted socket (no certs needed, I > just need basic encryption).
> (de mq-open (Host Port SSL) > (if SSL > (pipe > (exec "ncat" "--ssl" Host Port) ) > (connect Host Port) ) ) > > Is this a good approach? Yes, looks good. > Using the FFI to call openssl library is more efficient, but I didn't want to > go > that path yet... I would not worry about efficiency here, because just a single process is started once. > Once concern I have with the above code is dealing with when a connection is > dropped. I would use the file descriptor returned from the above function in a 'task', and close (and perhaps restart) it when reading returns NIL (EOF). ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
