Re: [boost] [asio] SSL documentation

From: Carlo Medas (carlomedas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 11:57:09

Dear Michael,

if you read and learn the well documented TCP connection sections, using ssl
it's only a matter of changing the construction (the type) of the stream,
which becomes boost::asio::ssl::stream instead of the tcp one.

All the rest, except for ssl context management, which is yet documented, is
exactly the same. And there you can find the impressive power of ASIO lib!
You change the underlying bearer but all the rest keeps unvaried.

So my suggestion is to see standard tutorial and examples for tcp
connections and then take a look at the few ones on SSL, that only show
differences; e.g. ssl stream construction, ssl context creation and
configuration, handshake hooks.

Hope I was able to show you a learning path.

Br,

\Carlo Medas

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Michael Marcin <mike.marcin_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Michael Marcin wrote:
>
>> The ASIO documentation leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to its SSL
>> support. All the SSL related classes have 1 line of meaningless
>> documentation in the reference section. There is 1 SSL related example with
>> no comments in it. There is no mention of SSL in the Tutorial or Design
>> sections.
>>
>> Has anyone written some documentation, a blog, or even a newsgroup post
>> about the SSL portion of ASIO?
>>
>>
> Is the SSL portion of ASIO so obvious to everyone but me that it needs no
> expository documentation?
>
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