Is there anyway to do the following? Receive a HTTP request from a browser. To reply to this request I would like to connect via SSL from the RH SWS (using the internal library for license reasons) to another SSL enabled server. Then use that data to respond back to the original HTTP request. Sort of use the RH SWS as a "browser" to another webserver via SSL. Is there any interface in the server that permits this? (I am not looking at redirecting the browser to the other SSL enabled site, since I need control over that datastream.) Thanks, Hentosh
> Is there anyway to do the following? > > Receive a HTTP request from a browser. To reply to this request I would > like to connect via SSL from the RH SWS (using the internal library for > license reasons) to another SSL enabled server. Then use that data to > respond back to the original HTTP request. > > Sort of use the RH SWS as a "browser" to another webserver via SSL. Is > there any interface in the server that permits this? > > (I am not looking at redirecting the browser to the other SSL enabledsite,> since I need control over that datastream.)Apache can be used as an http accelerator (which it sounds like what you want). www.apache.org explains this. I''m not 100% sure though if this functionality will work on SWS, but unless Red Hat didn''t compile it in (i.e. crippled it) it should work ok.> Thanks, > Hentosh-Kurt Seifried, MCP+I, MCSE https://www.seifried.org/kurt/ Linux Administrator''s Security Guide https://www.seifried.org/lasg/
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Hentosh wrote:> Is there anyway to do the following? > > Receive a HTTP request from a browser. To reply to this request I would > like to connect via SSL from the RH SWS (using the internal library for > license reasons) to another SSL enabled server. Then use that data to > respond back to the original HTTP request. > > Sort of use the RH SWS as a "browser" to another webserver via SSL. Is > there any interface in the server that permits this?I wrote a CGI that did exactly that several years ago...minus all the SSL bits. I would imagine you could do it with a CGI on your SWS that either uses lynx or uses some of the source code from lynx (you have to grab source for the version that supports https)...or perhaps someone''s even done an https client capable perl module. ----don''t waste your cpu, crack rc5...www.distributed.net team enzo--- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea''d...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________