Hi Vered, If you're just fetching files or doing simple http GETs you might consider looking at curl (http://curl.haxx.se/) which might save you some work... depends what you want to do :-)
cheers, Sean ps. curl uses openssl :-) Tim Pushor wrote: >Vered, > >Https is http over ssl.The openssl library should be all you need >(http://www.openssl.org). > >I recommend startig with Eric Rescorla's excellent 'Introduction to SSL >Programming' (http://www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples/) > >Tim > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Dear sir, > >I need to develop a client that can communicate with https server. The >client has to be developed in C (on UNIX), and it has to be able encode >and decode with SSL. > >I have no background on this subject, so please advise me on the >following : > >1.which SSL libs I should install in order to be able to use SSL, and >from where can I get them? 2. Is this installation enough to be able >communicating with https server? or should I install some https libs? 3. >where can I get reference on https protocol, for C client? 4. is https >just like http but with SSL layer, or the difference between them is >much deeper? > >thanks in advance, > >Vered Domankevich > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
