Ela Jarecka wrote:
:  
: All I know right now is that the client is a server, a physical maschine, on
: which a process is running awaiting my 
: ( appropriately formatted ) messages.

The process is a web server, yes?

: Once it gets such a message it
: generates requested data and sends it back 
: using scp to our proxy server.
: Sorry, but all I have is a documentation written by someone who is not
: reachable at the moment.. 
: 
: Do you have any examples of the second solution? E.g. for opening a
: https-connection by a Perl script? It may be
: really simple as I am completely new to the subject...

>From the Crypt::SSLeay documentation:

       use LWP::UserAgent;
       my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
       my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'https://www.nodeworks.com');
       my $res = $ua->request($req);
       print $res->code."\n";

>From the Net::SSLeay documentation:

       use Net::SSLeay, qw(get_https post_https sslcat make_headers make_form);

       ($page, $response, %reply_headers)
              = post_https('www.bacus.pt', 443, '/foo.cgi', '',
                     make_form(
                             'OK'   => '1',
                             'name' => 'Sampo'
                     ));

Presumably in the second example, you could replace make_form()
with the XML message.

-- tdk

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