RE: OpenSSL and ASP

[Derek Strickland]

Thanks a bunch for the help and the insight.  Hope it isn't too offensive to
the list as a whole for me to do this publicly, but I am in awe of the whole
experience.  This is my first attempt to participate in an Open Source forum
and you guys have been way helpful and prompt in your replies.  Being a
newbie to this list I don't know if it is proper decorum or bandwidth
etiquette, but I just wanted to take a second to publicly recognize you for
your assistance and say words that are all too often left unsaid,

Thank you!



-Original Message-
From: Oscar Jacobsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
Subject: Re: OpenSSL and ASP


Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
 Suggestion: there are packages out there that supply interfaces for
 OpenSSL to perl, python, ruby and I don't know what other languages.
 If you build a VB interface, it might be a good idea to release it as
 a separate package.

 [reasoning deleted for brevity]

Quite true. It would be far easier/cleaner, IMHO, to build a separate
OpenSSL COM-wrapper, which could then be used to call OpenSSL from any
given language that supports COM: VB, Java, C, C++ (the latter two
wouldn't really need to go through the wrapper though. :-))

I've built a couple of different COM objects around the OpenSSL data
types and their functions in my day, but I'm not familiar enough with
the subtleties of OOP  COM design to have acheived anything I'd call
fully Reusable just yet. If anybody's looking for code examples however,
I'm sure I should be able to throw something together.

Best regards,

//oscar


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OpenSSL and ASP

[Derek Strickland]

I have to integrate with a company that is running an all Perl/Unix site
that requires an OpenSSL authentication.  I have compiled OpenSSL on my
Windows box and it passes all the tests for a valid installation, but I
can't find any article on using OpenSSL from ASP.  Is it possible?  I even
tried going into VB and making a project reference just so I could get some
intellisense help on methods/properties and VB cannot add a reference to
this DLL.  Does this mean that I have no options other than building a
FreeBSD box to talk to this Apache Server for this one task?  Is there no
way to make this run via ASP/IIS or at least use a built in IIS object that
will communicate effectively with an OpenSSL Listener on his end.  Help
would be awesome.  Thanks.

Derek Strickland
DotAnything Inc.



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