[Qt-interest] [Solved] Is there something special needed for SSL on Windows?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 8. Dezembro 2009, às 06.27.33, Nikos Chantziaras escreveu:
> After a lot of searching, I found out that Qt does not support SSL under
> Windows out of the box.  One needs to download the libeay32.dll and
> ssleay32.dll OpenSSL DLLs and put them in the directory of the
> application's .exe.

That's exactly the same as on Linux and Mac (and all other Unix).

SSL support is enabled by default if OpenSSL can be found.

The difference is that OpenSSL is usually pre-installed on Mac and Linux, 
whereas Windows users need to go get it for themselves.

> Another thing I found out is that establishing a connection with
> QSslSocket or QTcpSocket is slow as molasses in Windows :P  In Linux the
> connection happens immediately.  In Windows there's a delay of about 1
> second before data can be sent.

That's Winsock for you. If you want really responsive networking, use Linux.

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