SSL

I'd probably suggest looking at a very simple app - for example, the s_client program which ships with openssl.

This is effectively like "netcat" or perhaps "telnet" (without telnet negotiation ability), only it connects to a SSL socket rather than a plain tcp one. You can use it to test HTTPS servers by speaking HTTP into s_client and having it do the SSL handshake and encryption / decryption.

Alternatively,

- lynx
- curl

Both of which can (optionally, presumably) use OpenSSL for HTTPS support.

Mark

Thanks mark,

I found the error actually. It was simple, but since OpenSSL lacks documentation it was still rather difficult to track down. I had a self issued certificate and the verify routine was choking on it.

I say we get a bunch of college students together and have them sit down and write a decent doc on OpenSSL. There is so much in there, but yet so very little of it is exposed through the current documentation!

-Ken Noland