<div dir="ltr">If I recall correctly, Joe's book has an extended example concerning a chat system which touches on sending messages across the internet, and the associated security issues.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Timothy Baldridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbaldridge@gmail.com">tbaldridge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greetings,<br>
<br>
I'm a recent convert to Erlang. I'm still reading up a bit on the<br>
language, then I plan on trying out some basic "Hello World" apps<br>
before diving into a more complex program.<br>
<br>
I have a few questions about Erlang's message passing. I understand<br>
the basic idea behind message passing in Erlang, and how processes can<br>
be distributed to other physical machines. Is there a way to pass<br>
messages like this across a rather unsafe medium like the Internet?<br>
For instance, I'd like to write a client/server app where users can<br>
login to the main server over the Internet. Both ends of the program<br>
will be in Erlang. Now I know I could write marshaling routines to<br>
pack and unpack the data on either end, and shove the packaged data<br>
over TCP/IP, but it would be much nicer if Erlang had a way that was<br>
as simple as PID ! message.<br>
<br>
And secondly, if the above is possible, is it possible to encrypt the<br>
communication by piping it through a SSL connection? I'm sure there<br>
has to be something like this.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help, as a big fan of the Python language, let me say<br>
that Erlang's feature set was what made me decide to switch. Python<br>
has many bottlenecks, and Erlang, while different, takes care of most<br>
of these issues.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Timothy<br>
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