.. am I the only one who wants to call "Adam" by his real name, Mike?
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:03:48 -0600, Adam Selene wrote:
> Tell you what, I'll stop complaining about the lack of a standard
> interface if OpenSRS's programmers can do the following:
>
> Create two HelloWorld applications that authenticate with
> OpenSRS and peform one simple message exchange (e.g. Hello
> World).
>
> One written in Java, one written in C#, using only standard libraries.
>
> If they cannot do that in about 10-20 lines of code, then there is
> a problem.
>
> I'd gladly write a C# implementation using TCP sockets to share
> with everyone, except that I *know* I will run into a problem with
> the encryption that will cost me time I am unwilling to spend.
>
> Adam
>
>
> Colin Viebrock wrote:
>> Notwithstanding the above, the encryption portion of the OpenSRS
>> protocol was a major pain in the ass. It may use standard encryption
>> protocols (DES, Blowfish, CBC, etc.), but it the implementation
>> (Crypt::CBC) is *not* standard in anyway. This caused much gnashing
>> of teeth and tearing of hair, and eventually I had to "translate"
>> Crypt::CBC into PHP before I could even look at the OpenSRS code.
>> This wasn't easy, and I would happily agree that it makes porting the
>> OpenSRS client to other languages/platforms non-trival.
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