[Qgis-user] SSL Support in QGIS Builds, esp. Windows and MacOSX

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Marco,

thanks for the info. So there is hope that the final 1.0 Windows version
will support SSL. This is good. Let me know if you need a tester.

Andreas

> Hi,
>
>> For the SSL libraries, those are part of the standard OSX system, no
>> worries there.  I don't know about Windows.
>
> I can tell about Windows; I must build OpenSSL library with MinGW because
> GRASS and QGIS (built with MinGW, along with all the other libraries,
> including PostgreSQL and SQLite) don't agree with Visual Studio built
> libraries. That means that I cannot enable OpenSSL support in PostgreSQL
> and
> SQLite since I build OpenSSL with MinGW. This is a task in my to-do list
> for
> WinGRASS-6.3.0-5 (or 6.4.0) and QGIS 1.0.
>
> Marco
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
> To: "Andreas Neumann" <a.neumann at carto.net>
> Cc: "qgis-user" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] SSL Support in QGIS Builds, esp. Windows and
> MacOSX
>
>
>> On OSX, at least the way I and Tom package our builds, the postgres
>> client library is bundled in the Qgis application, so there is no need
>> to
>> worry about whether they are available in the system or not.   Windows
>> builds may do the same.
>>
>> For the SSL libraries, those are part of the standard OSX system, no
>> worries there.  I don't know about Windows.
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>
>>> yes - my server has SSL enabled, but most of the client PCs and Macs
>>> don't have any Psql tools or libraries installed, and no openssl
>>> libraries, unless the OS provides one.
>>>
>>> No, QGIS doesn't block SSL (Marco and I tried it yesterday on Linux)  -
>>> but the OpenSSL libraries must be present on the clients - which  is
>>> usually not the case I think.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>>> For OSX, SSL is enabled in my Postgres, and so should be available  in
>>>> my Qgis binaries.  I don't know about Tom's all-in-one Qgis build.
>>>> Unless there is something in Qgis blocking SSL?
>>>> On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>>
>>
>> -----
>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
>> All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
>>
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