[Techtalk] testing https

Sat Aug 21 13:19:01 EST 2004

Hello everyone,

I'm new here although I was once a member (on and off) over a span of a
couple years many moons ago.   last time I ever sent or read anything on
linuxchix must have been about 2 years, at the very least.  (I've been
pretty busy getting married and having a baby ;) )

So thanks for having me and I'm looking forward to spending more time on
the lists...

I'm gonna hit the ground running today with a question for ya'll .. I
would really appreciate if anybody knows this and can tell me... doesn't
seem like such a hard question except the solution has been eluding me
all day long.

I need to find out how I can test HTTPS over a telnet session if that's
even possible.  I've scoured the internet, apache.org and deja but it
seems i must be using bad search strings or something..

I have a server running SAP on port 1972 and need to talk to it using
HTTPS for testing/monitoring purposes..

of course, speaking HTTP language isn't working.

[root at someserver]# telnet 0 1978
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET index.html?auto HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:08:34 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7c
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Bad Request</H1>
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<BR>
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Hint: <A
HREF="https://someserver.net:1978/"><B>https://someserver.net:1978/</B></A></BLOCKQUOTE><P>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.

and the error log is spewing the following:

[Sat Aug 21 13:11:35 2004] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (server
someserver.net:1978, client 127.0.0.1) (OpenSSL library error follows)
[Sat Aug 21 13:11:35 2004] [error] OpenSSL: error:140760FC:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol [Hint: speaking not SSL
to HTTPS port!?]

-overhaul