After a three year hiatus, Crypt::SSLeay is being actively maintained once more. A first development release was issued a couple of days ago, that added a one-line fix that clears up most of the open tickets in the bug queue.

A second development release has just been issued. This adds two patches from the RT queue, one for improved diagnostics, the second for better VMS support.

The distribution compiles and tests correctly with 5.005_03, 5.6.1 and various 5.8 releases, on Linux and FreeBSD. I'd like to get a few data points from some of the proprietary Unix platforms (AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Tru64 to name a few). In fact anything other than Linux, and/or prior to 5.8.6 would be grand.

The XS code doesn't compile warnings-free, I intend to address that in the future.

The big problem today is that the test suite sucks. No, not because it lacks POD coverage tests, but rather it doesn't really test anything much more than the fact that the module doesn't explode on contact. The source code coverage of the Perl code alone is about a mere 25%. I suspect the XS code is similar.

I need tests. Or examples of real-world code. Hopefully I will be able to bend the examples into tests. So if you have some bits of code lying around that deal with https protocol, proxies and the like, drop me a line.

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In reply to Crypt-SSLeay needs you! by grinder

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