You don't need special privilegues to compile openssl. Just go into your home directory, download the tar.gz archive, unpack and compile it. The only thing yopu can'T do as usual is the installing. Neal Scoones schrieb: > > Hello - > > I'm trying to build a small proxy on my web server that can act as a https > client. I've got libwww running fine, but can't seem to get openssl to > complile successfully. Multiple things seem to be holding me back: > > 1 - I don't have root access > 2 - I can't write to the main perl lib dirctory, and instead have to do a > "use lib" to a directory I can write to. > 3 - Other things I don't know about > > My question is whether anyone knows of a source for precompiled binaries > for openssl, or of another way to get PERL to speak https as a client that > doesn't require extensive compiling. In the absence of enough UNIX > knowlege to fix the code to get something to complile, I'm really stuck. > > My ISP is running SunOS on a Solaris server. > > Thanks so much, > Neal > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Holger Reif Tel.: +49 361 74707-0 SmartRing GmbH Fax.: +49 361 7470720 Europaplatz 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-99091 Erfurt WWW.SmartRing.de ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]