You are right of course. I handle HTTP myself. A TLS connection example will suffice.
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 7:53 PM Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Ivan Medoedov wrote: > > > I've only managed to find this, but it seems to do too much for what I > need: > > > > https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/SSL/TLS_Client > > > > Basically I need something like Go's http.Get(" > https://mysite.com/version";) > > to just get a one line of text from the server. > > > > I can't use libcurl, I have to use pure openssl. > > OpenSSL is NOT an HTTPS (client or server) library. OpenSSL can > establish a TLS connection, but does not implement anything like > "http.Get". That's what libcurl and the like are for. > > If you're willing to roll your own HTTP client code, then you > can use OpenSSL for the TLS part of the HTTPS transaction. > > HTTP clients handle all sorts of complications over and above TLS: > > * Proxies > * Redirects > * Client requests with bodies > * Authentication > * Chunked transfer encoding > * Content encoding (e.g. gzip) > * Cookies > ... > > None of these are in scope for OpenSSL. > > -- > Viktor. >
