Hi All,
I've doing the same task, and have found it easiest using the simple client
example in the demos\ssl directory - s_client is reasonably complex for what
is a reasonably simple task.
What I don't understand is how to authenticate the server once the secure
connection has been established - In theory, I believe, it could be any
secure server using any snakeoil CA that I have connected to.
Is there an standard method for a client to authenticate a server & a
server's CA? It seems to be a basic enough function, but I keep getting
lost in the headers.
Is it enough just to parse the details provided by
X509_get_issuer_name (server_cert) ? (I don't think so)
Any help or pointers appreciated,
Cheers,
Ian.
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The mysterious comment in cli.cpp:
/* We could do all sorts of certificate verification stuff here before
deallocating the certificate. */
tells me I'm missing something.
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Subject: Re: a task that I'm sure someone has solved
Craig Idler schrieb:
>
> Hi -
>
> I would like to use the OpenSSL library with an application to send
> http method requests to a ssl enabled web server.
openssl s_client utility can do this. But you need to craft
the HTTP Request by hand (that shouldn't be to hard)
> In addition, I must
> be able to interact with the server to provide user:password
> information.
That shouldn't be to hard as well, since it involves only
encoding of the password. Kind of base64? don't know, check the
releveant RFC. But if this is the case openssl is your friend as
well with "openssl base64 -e"
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