For some years, we have been in my company running a secure non-http file transfer system. Nowadays, with more and more system administrators allowing secure incoming connections only trough 443 port , that system doesn´t work, because it does not speak HTTP and 443 port is usually already used by web servers, so we cant use it for our systems. So there is no solution, if system admin does not open another port, except to use 443 port.
Now we have made a mod_ssl patch to allow non-HTTP secure incoming connections to be deciphered and forwarded to a selected server, configured in conf file, while also serving HTTP in the usual way. I´m not sure if this can be done in any other way with Apache modules, but it works and its all i need. The patch is in http://spipe.sourceforge.net If you see documentation, you will see there are some other interesting (I think) use cases to create secure "pipes" from one web server to another. Hope it will be of help to someone in the same situation. If not, just consider it a more or less summer academic experiment. Thank you ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
