[PROTON-2495] Use python builtin tls support for encrypted connections

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: python-binding
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 04/Feb/22 15:32
• Updated: 04/Feb/22 15:34

Description

The Python standard library had built in support for tls in the ssl module. Our current python binding already does all the socket IO itself and just passes bytes to the proton library to implement the protocol.

So it would not be too hard to rearrange the TLS support for the python binding to not use the standard Python TLS support and not require linking openssl with the proton library at all.

Doing this would have also have the benefit of making the python package build/install simpler too.

Issue Links

• relates to: PROTON-2492 Python module linking on recent macOS fails with clang unable to find -lssl
• relates to: PROTON-2494 Improve python-qpid-proton wheel build regarding pkgconfig and deps