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rhnlib - A collection of python modules used by the Spacewalk (http://spacewalk.redhat.com) software. Copyright (C) 2002--2015 Red Hat, Inc. This library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). 0. HISTORY Traditionally, rhn used a patched version of Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib, shipped with Red Hat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 in a package called python-xmlrpc. The additions included improved transport objects (proxy support, a better SSL framework, encodings and transfers), most of them part of a module called cgiwrap. Since python 2.2 (and previous python 2 releases) ships Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib as a standard library, maintaining a patched version of xmlrpclib was no longer feasible. SSL support in python 2.2 is also hopelessly incomplete, so using an external module seems to be a better approach. We chose pyOpenSSL instead of m2crypto, partly because swig seems to change rather quickly. rhnlib tries to reuse as much as possible from the old cgiwrap, as well as from what the standard python libraries provide.