Ben/Ralf Apache-SSL/mod_ssl What!?!?!
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Ben/Ralf Apache-SSL/mod_ssl What!?!?!




I've been lurking on this list for some time as eventually I'll need to
install *something* SSL.  This whole mod_ssl/apache_ssl mess has done
nothing but confuse me.

Ralf
  Please re-read your posts.  You claim that there isn't competition.
  But to a newbie you send a message that Apache-SSL is "old school"
  and mod_ssl is "new school".  That sounds like competition to me.
  I do like the CVS thing.  Not that I contribute, I just like that
  dev model.  Oh, I will say thanks for the time you spent on mod_ssl 
  even though I don't use either product yet people should alway receive
  praise for free software dev.  If mod_ssl does prove easier to
  use and stable then I'm all for it.  (I'm lazy ;-)

Ben
   First, thank you for the Apache-SSL.  It is obviously the framework
   mod_ssl is built upon.  But, you seem to me to be responding to Ralfs
   claims not stating your own.  Have you looked over mod_ssl?  If so,
   do you see any differences between mod_ssl and apache-ssl.  Is the code
   really cleaned up, reorginized, easier to config, etc.  Or would
   a person be trading a mature product (Apache-SSL) for something that
   was less tested and had no real benifit.

I'm really not trying to start a huge flame war I just really need a clear
picture as to the differences between the packages.  These exchanges of
"doesn't do this/yes it does" really make it hard for me to understand
what really going on here.

Please.  I'm not trying to insult/offend anyone and if something I said
above sounds that way it wasn't intended as such. The whole Apache w/ SSL
topic has just become alot more complex and my time to invest in
reasearching it hasn't increased. 

Thanks.

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