Re: TLS in Gopher

["Iain R. Learmonth" <irl@fsfe.org>]

Hi,

On 01/03/18 07:18, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> Perhaps I'm wrong and it is in fact trivially easy? Can somebody post
> some sample code, a few lines maybe, illustrating how it would work in a
> simple Gopher server?

Accept connection
Read a few bytes, enough to know if it's a TLS client hello
If it's TLS:
   Hand over to TLS library
If it's not TLS:
   Handle the query directly

This is not that hard.

In Python you would use the socket.MSG_PEEK option on a recv() call to
take a look at those bytes before passing it off to a TLS library or
handling the request directly.

Thanks,
Iain.