Open SSL connection to HTTPS?

[Dan Astoorian]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:30:06 EST, Ciaran Deignan writes:
> 
> I know that SSL and SSH are *entirely* different, but ssh is
> the only commonly-available encryption-enabled command-line tool
> around. It would be greate to have an SSL-emulation mode in
> OpenSSH....

Since OpenSSH depends on the OpenSSL package, presumably you have the
latter installed?

Try:
    openssl s_client -connect host:443

to connect to your SSL-enabled web server.

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