I am trying to understand how the SSL object in the socket module is supposed to be used. From looking at the documentation, I can work out that you need to pass a socket into the ssl() function, and you get back an SSL object that has write() and read() methods similar to a file object.
However, what I don't get is the context you are supposed to use this object in. I thought that SSL was like a socket, but the transmission would be encrypted. So I guess I was expecting the SSL object to look like a socket object-- so that you could just use an SSL object as a drop-in replacement for a socket object when you wanted to encrypt the transmission. Am I missing something fundamental here? Thanks for any pointers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
