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diff --git a/libraries/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README b/libraries/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c923a98194 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/perl-IO-Socket-SSL/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +IO::Socket::SSL -- Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET. + +This module is a true drop-in replacement for IO::Socket::INET that uses SSL +to encrypt data before it is transferred to a remote server or client. +IO::Socket::SSL supports all the extra features that one needs to write a +full-featured SSL client or server application: multiple SSL contexts, cipher +selection, certificate verification, and SSL version selection. As an extra +bonus, it works perfectly with mod_perl. + +In order to use IO::Socket::SSL you need to have Net::SSLeay v1.21 or later, +avalaible as Net-SSLeay from SlackBuilds.org. This package as also an +optional dependency on libwww-perl which can be installed from SlackBuilds.org +as well. Another optional dependency is on international domain names +handling module, it's recommended to install either Net::IDN::Encode or +Net::LibIDN. The latter is avalaible from SlackBuilds.org, if none of these +are found found, however, the library will switch to internal name resolution +routines (and prints out a big ugly WARNING at compile time ;-) ). |