On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:18:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is my first post on the list, am new to OpenSSL and need a simple
> guidance to begin programming. I'm C++ programmer and require to implement
> SSL support to a very simple program, just need to send a small FORM POST
> via https and receive back 6 lines of text. I have already a working code
> to post via simple http but now require to do the same using ssl.
>
> As you can see it is very simple but have no idea where to start, the
> first thing I did was to see the openssl package from my linux
> distribution to find some documentation but just found libraries and
> header files, so tried openssl.org and I'm here now.
>
> Would anybody tell me where to start or what documentation or tutorial
> would help me? just need to understand the concept so I can jump to the
> use of ssl functions and implement what I need. Any suggestion?
Consider "stunnel". Naive, ground-up implementations of SSL/TLS often
accidentally fail to do the job securely. Use an SSL proxy to connect your
non-SSL code to an SSL webserver (provided your execution environment
can restrict access to the proxy, if "stunnel" unix-domain sockets for
the local end-point, file permissions on that is a reasonable approach
on multi-user systems).
Perhaps there are C++ class libraries that offer a high-level HTTPS
connection primitive (and reasonably robust/flexible server certificate
verification interface).
--
Viktor.
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