Re: IPP under emacs [was: Re: Post-22.1 development?]

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jun 8, 2007, at 17:43, Jason Rumney wrote:
> Ken Raeburn wrote:
> > done using SIGALRM to gnutls, which only starttls.el seems to do, and
> > there was a report that it's not working for someone on Windows.
> That is hardly surprising, since Windows does not use signals.

:-)

So, it's a solution for some protocols, but only on some Emacs  
platforms.

The approach of using signals and in-band text for status reporting  
also makes me wonder about synchronization and spoofing issues, but  
like I indicated, I haven't looked into it closely, it may be fine.

Personally, I'm more interested in the GSSAPI and SASL  
possibilities.  And it looks like that's where more work is needed,  
anyways.  I just hope I find some time to *do* something about it... :-(

Ken