Thanks Martin,

Your patch worked beautifully.

Also the -u user:pass worked but instead I put an authorization:
attribute in the config file.

Happy New Year!
Vic



On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 02:22, Martin Allert wrote:
>                       Hi Vic,
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:54:27PM -0500, Vic Engle wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I need to index an https secure server. Are there any special
> > ./configure options to build htdig such that it can use https? I ran
> > ./configure --help and didn't see anything related to ssl. I am unable
> > to index a secure site so I assume this capability isn't available by
> > default.
> 
> You need to patch the source, Luke :))
> 
> ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.6/
> 
> Look for ssl.12 and read the README :)
> Requirements are: OpenSSL
> 
> I recommend also to use egd/prngd to get a better random seed, if you are 
> running ht://Dig with Solaris...
> 
> Afterwards, you can just define in the config file the start URL as
> 
> https://your.domain.com/
> 
> and be happy. :)
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Martin



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