in case someone is interested, i'm writing a perl interface (called Net::SSL) to OpenSSL. at first, it was meant to be a Net::SSL (in Gisle Aas's Crypt-SSLeay package) emulation library that would fix libwww-perl's support for https scheme URLs. the library provides an interface similar to that of IO::Socket::INET. i've managed to write an experimental client and server with it in the spirit of IO::Socket::INET. it also appears to be working with LWP and i'm able to use https URLs through LWP. the library uses Net::SSLeay v1.03 so you have to have it installed. the interface library and test scripts can be found at: http://www.hip.fi/~aspa/SSL/net_ssl.tgz any comments are welcome, best regards, -- aspa ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]