[Techtalk] testing https

[overhaul]

thank you.

yes, i know about s_client, but this machine is missing it so i was
looking for an easy way out.  lol!   no suck luck it seems...

thanks again.
-overhaul


well, thank you.  I'll have to get it isntalled 

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 13:37, James wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:19:01 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> You can't use an ordinary "telnet" tool - as you've discovered, it
> doesn't speak SSL - but the OpenSSL library does have an equivalent
> tool, s_client, designed for exactly what you're trying to do:
> "telnetting" to an encrypted server for testing.
> 
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/s_client.html
> 
> You presumably want something like this command:
> 
> s_client -connect localhost:443
> 
> 
> James.