Open SSL connection to HTTPS?

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Ciaran Deignan wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I just tried to test my web server with telnet. The only problem
> was that my web server refuses non-encrypted connections (duh!).
> 
> 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....

No - they are _completely_ different. If you have OpenSSL installed 
(which you probably have if you have OpenSSH installed), you can use
"openssl s_client" to do what you ask.

-d

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