Shibu Narendranathan wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to implement a proprietary encryption mechanism on an
existing apache server.
What is desired is the following.
Client Server
------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
----
1) sends a binary message to | 1) receives and
port80 (key Xchange msg)-> | a) Checks if it is a normal http msg
| If yes, continue the normal way.
| b) Checks if it is a binary message
| (Let's assume it has a marker, say
| first 4 chars are FFFF)
| If yes, then return a response
right
receive response (binary) | <--- away & keep the connection open
for more
| messages, which will be decrypted
by the
| module and given to rest of layers
(as if
| it were normal HTTP message).
|
send encrypted message --> | The new module decrypts it and
passes to
(binary) | rest of the layers.
Look at mod_echo.c, available in the default src tarballs for httpd-2 to
see how a new/custom protocol is handled.
You may also want to look at mod_ssl to see how it decrypts HTTP
messages and makes it available to apache.
-srp
