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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: pop3s ioslave
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2001-02-03 2:09:01
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> Currently in kdebase/kioslave/pop3 there is a protocol file for the pop3s 
> protocol that the pop3 ioslave used to support until it was removed for 
> whatever reason.  

Well, it was removed because the way it was implemented was hackish.

> The ioslave does not support ssl now, so shouldn't the 
> pop3s protocol file not be installed since that protocol is not supported?  

No.  The appropiate thing to do would be to include some sort of disable
statement, and/or point it to a nonexistant binary because if you prevent
it from being installed it will leave a dangling reference to a perhaps
binary incompatible kio_pop3s (if they don't clean out their KDEDIR).

> Is there a plan/design for 
> adding ssl support to the ioslaves, or has that been put off?

Yes.  Ideally after 2.1 or whatever, work will begin on making KSSL able
to dynamically load the SSL bits.  This can't be done because of bc
concerns.

The problem is that a second binary for SSL is quite wasteful because
upwords of 90% of the code is the same.  However if you link one binary
with the SSL stuff it'll use about 1mb of memory even if not actively
used.... this really bothered some people (even tho this would translate
into not very much memory since usually only one or two pop3 ioslaves are
operating at a time).

My prefered "fix" would be to re-enable the SSL code, and have a shared
binary that links against SSL.

- alex

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