I have a sneaking suspicion that these questions have been raised before, but I've gone through the FAQ and documents on the site, as well as Google Groups, and I really haven't found definitive answers. So if these are well known problems, just point me to the URLs please.
My basic problem is that I want to spider secure urls (https://). I gather that htdig 3.1.6 can handle https url's if ssl has been included in the make. I also gather that there was (or is) some sort of OpenSSL patch for 3.1.6, and that the ssl implementation on version 3.2 is unreliable if not broken. So if anyone could point me to some answers to the following questions, I would really appreciate it. - Does the current stable htDig really support indexing https urls and is there any special requirements to set this up, other than pointing to the urls in htdig.conf? - Does the makefile for building 3.1.6 have to be modified to support https urls? Is this documented somewhere? - What's the story on this OpenSSL patch? - Will this ssl-enabled htdig fail if the certificate information does not match the site url (not untypical when dealing with a self generated certificate.)? - One of the emails I researched referenced an external script, 'handler.pl' that was used to get around problems with https sites. Does anyone know anything about it or where to get it? Some background on our system: The machine is an Sun Enterprise 250 OS is Solaris Current version of OpenSSL is 0.9.6b (and we're moving to upgrade that) There is an htDig 3.1.6 version installed on this machine, but it is not clear from reviewing the make log that the part of the compile that linked to OpenSSL was completed successfully. Any help gratefully accepted. We've been using htDig on several non-secure internal sites and everyone has had a lot of praise for it. This request is the result of moving one of those sites to a secured external machine so that it's content can be accessed by employees and partners outside of our corporate firewall. Regards, John Charles John Pedersen Sr. Systems Engineer SRI International Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-859-5913 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
