<div dir="ltr">Yes, I just found that article and was about to reply with it as well.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Kevin A. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@hypotheticalabs.com">kevin@hypotheticalabs.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;">If you're willing to patch your Erlang installation, there's this<br>
recipe on <a href="http://trapexit.org" target="_blank">trapexit.org</a> which illustrates how to make distributed<br>
Erlang work over SSL in a firewall-friendly fashion:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.trapexit.org/Distributed_erlang_using_ssl_through_firewalls" target="_blank">http://www.trapexit.org/Distributed_erlang_using_ssl_through_firewalls</a><br>
<br>
I've used it in some prototyping code and it seems to work fine.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
--Kevin<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Aug 13, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Timothy Baldridge wrote:<br>
<br>
> 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>
><br>
> --<br>
> Two wrights don't make a rong, they make an airplane. Or bicycles.<br>
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