# Need reconsideration of bpo-34975: Add start\_tls() method to streams API

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/need-reconsideration-of-bpo-34975-add-start-tls-method-to-streams-api/14720>\
**Category:** Core Development\
**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/need-reconsideration-of-bpo-34975-add-start-tls-method-to-streams-api/14720 "2022-03-30T16:45:36Z")\
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Can [bpo-34975: Add start\_tls() method to streams API](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13143) from 2019 be reopened and reconsidered? The added method allows to turn encryption on on demand (and off, as the author expressed his readiness a week ago).

Initially it was closed in favor of a new asyncio streams API but later the API was cleanly reverted because it was overloaded and deeply text-oriented.

This feature is required to port `test` package (namely, dummy FTP and mail servers) to `asyncio.start_server()` instead of low-level `recv`-esque work with an event loop.