TMySSLIOHandler Question

snorkel · Post by **snorkel** » Sat 24 May 2008 05:37

Hi,
Does the TMySSLIOHandler for MyDAC allow connections to any MySQL server that has SSL enabled using the direct protocol option of the MyDac connection? or does a special SSL tunnel server need to be running on the mySQL server such as Stunnel?

Currently the only way to get SSL with MyDAC is to use the MySQL client DLLs correct? but if TMySSLIOHandler is used the DLL is not required to connect or am I not reading the description correctly.

Thanks,

Snorkel

Dimon · Post by **Dimon** » Tue 27 May 2008 07:16

In order to connect to MySQL server with MyDAC via SSL you need to use DLL library.
But if you use TMySSLIOHandler and the SecureBridge components you can create the direct connection to MySQL without any tunnels and without third-party libraries.
You can find more detailed information about this in the "Secure connections" topic of MyDAC Help.

snorkel · Post by **snorkel** » Tue 27 May 2008 14:28

Dimon wrote:In order to connect to MySQL server with MyDAC via SSL you need to use DLL library.
But if you use TMySSLIOHandler and the SecureBridge components you can create the direct connection to MySQL without any tunnels and without third-party libraries.
You can find more detailed information about this in the "Secure connections" topic of MyDAC Help.

That sounds great, Thank you for the inforamation, it was a little unclear in the docs if I needs something like stunnel installed on the MySQL server when using TMySSLIOHandler