* Jason Englander wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Nathan Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> I would like the option to use the https protocol with freshclam in a
>> local
>> mirror setup.
> 
> Sorry to reply to a month-old post.  I skimmed the thread, minus the
> bickering, 

:-)

> and if there's a later follow-up, I have not seen it yet.
> 
> ...but if you're doing it with a local mirror, might Stunnel work for
> you? Set it up on both ends, freshclam talks to the non-SSL local port
> on localhost, but the connection to the remote web server is
> SSL-encrypted... Actually, I guess you might be able to have stunnel +
> OpenSSL on one end and Apache + OpenSSL on the other, have not tried
> that myself.

H'mm thats an interesting idea.

> 
> The Stunnel Examples page highlights various nifty possibilities, most
> of which I have never attempted.  Works great for me with syslog to a
> log server though.

So I'd set it up to have freshclam go through stunnel to the https server.
Have I got  the idea right?


-- 
Sincerely,

Nathan Gibbs

Systems Administrator
Christ Media
http://www.cmpublishers.com


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