Hi, I have written an apache module that sometimes connects to a backend server. Currently it does that through http, open a socket, send a get request, get a response, process it. Nothing special.
Now we need to support https too and I am wondering, how that could be accomplished. Should I use openssl directly? Does that work? Are there any helper functions I could use? I tried to find examples, but it is quite difficult since most of the examples cover configuration of ssl, not implementation of a ssl socket. I was also looking at mod_proxy but I don't understand how that stuff with the worker works. It's a lot of code and in the end I just need to open an ssl socket and I guess I can do the rest the same way as before. Any hints are appreciated. I should support Apache 2.2, but I might be able to weaken that to support only Apache 2.4, if that makes a huge difference. Tia, Christoph
