Update on KIO & KSSL

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 9:22:57 am Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Will Stephenson wrote:
> >On Monday 23 July 2007, Thiago Macieira said:
> >> And about KSSL: someone has to work on it. I said I'd do it, but I
> >> still have not found the will to start working on it. I do have the
> >> will to work on KIO::Job though.
> >
> >I don't have the skills to do it, but maybe I can help you find the will
> > to work on it (where there's a Will, there's a way, boom boom).  My
> > porting of everything Groupwise is blocked on KSSL.  You were planning
> > (coming out of the QCA/smartcard discussion) to port to QSSLSocket. 
> > What else did you have in mind for KSSL besides cleanups?
> 
> Complete overhaul.
> 
> That is, the new API has to be written. Currently there is no SSL support 
> at all outside libkio. The support inside is there only because we can't 
> disable https.
> 
This is becoming a major impediment to further progress on KMail.
What can we do to get KSSL development up and running?

Any volunteers? 

-Allen