https?

Todd Blanchard tblanchard at mac.com
Mon Feb 20 07:37:01 UTC 2006


OK so stunnel isn't going to fly - do you suppose something could be  
done with OSProcess and curl command line tool?  That might be the  
expedient thing short term.



On Feb 18, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Todd Blanchard wrote:
>
>> I like that I can say 'http://www.somthing.com' asUrl  
>> retrieveContents.  This is cool.
>>
>> I wish I could say 'https://www.securesomething.com' asUrl  
>> retrieveContents and have it work.  I've heard of stunnel and am  
>> just beginning to read the docs.  It seems to have a glimmer of a  
>> chance to let me do this (I'm using the Unix VM) but I thought I'd  
>> check and see if anyone had something all built already.
>
> Stunnel will let you forward a local port to a single, explicitly  
> configured HTTPS connection (so that you would say 'http:// 
> localhost:10001' asUrl retrieveContents and it would get translated  
> into a request to https://www.securesomething.com).  Another option  
> that should work is to configure an HTTP proxy to translate HTTPS  
> requests into HTTP requests - it seems like apache + mod_ssl +  
> mod_proxy should be able to do this though I've never quite got it  
> working myself.  The nicest option IMO would be to write a plugin  
> for libcurl...
>
> Avi
>




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