RE: [PEAR-DEV] Imap Backend Propsal

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 at 02:05:20, Richard York wrote: > I was looking at using imap|imaps to differientiate between tls and > notls but that left out a third possibility, 'ssl/novalidate-cert'. I think > I'd be more in favor of appending that portion of the call as an anchor on the > end of the string. Well, but wouldn't notls being the default make more sense? Also imap:// and imaps:// are quite commonly used - so I'd suggest to just add "novalidate-cert" as a possible option (anchor) but use imap / imaps to determine if ssl should be used. > I noticed, obviously that TLS is the same thing as SSL.. is that > portion of the argument always going to be called SSL (in the call to > imap_open) or is it called 'tls' on newer systems? Just leads me to question > whether that portion should also be added to the anchor. Well, it's not "the same". Having e.g. a look in your browser, into Thunderbird or so shows that there are different types of SSL/TLS. E.g. Internet Explorer (no flames please ;-)) has SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 as options. However, most of the time today SSL and TLS are mentioned together - that's right! Regards, Stefan