Hi All,
I am trying to implement a proprietary encryption mechanism on an
existing apache server.
What is desired is the following.
Client Server
------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
----
1) sends a binary message to | 1) receives and
port80 (key Xchange msg)-> | a) Checks if it is a normal http msg
| If yes, continue the normal way.
| b) Checks if it is a binary message
| (Let's assume it has a marker, say
| first 4 chars are FFFF)
| If yes, then return a response
right
receive response (binary) | <--- away & keep the connection open
for more
| messages, which will be decrypted
by the
| module and given to rest of layers
(as if
| it were normal HTTP message).
|
send encrypted message --> | The new module decrypts it and
passes to
(binary) | rest of the layers.
Can anybody give me an insight into the ways which I can achieve this? I
am new to apache modules and was looking into header_parser module to
achieve a part of this. What is the right/correct way to do this? Do I
have to play around with the core modules?
Any suggestions/ideas are very much appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Shibu.
