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Re: [Patch] STARTTLS support (forkserver only)

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Matt Sergeant
Date:
July 8, 2005 09:48
Subject:
Re: [Patch] STARTTLS support (forkserver only)
Message ID:
d20186c3f3670e56aba3d1b99afea28e@sergeant.org
On 8 Jul 2005, at 11:55, John Peacock wrote:

> I'll have to think about if it is even possible to pull the AUTH 
> support out of the core.  The big issue I see is that there needs to 
> be an AUTH hook, and we don't currently have a way to easily create 
> new hooks from within plugins (and I think we should be very careful 
> about whether we support that at all).

I think it'd be easy to do using isa_plugin - just have "hook" that is 
an overridden method in the subclass. Then you just have the base class 
hook into unrecognized_command as I did with STARTTLS.

Matt.
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