Julien Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Marie, > > Marie wrote: > > LO, > > > > I have Netscape 4.7 installed on my solaris/sparc workstation but no > > other package such as OpenSSL or whatever. > > > > I would like to know if it would be possible for an EXTERNAL program > > to use Netscape internal SSL capabilities to establish an SSL > > connection with a remote server ? > > Short answer is, not with 4.7 . > > But it depends how external you want your program to be . If you want it > to be a completeley independent process, then the answer is no, because > the SSL support is statically linked in Communicator 4.7 , and therefore > not accessible to other programs. > > If it is acceptable for your program to run inside the browser process, > there are various ways. You can do it from a very high-level with the > plug-in interface and simply load "https://"; URLs. I have done that and > it works. I even exposed the HTTPS support of Comm 4.6 on OS/2 through > IPC to a third party REXX program using named pipes. This was before the > RSA patent ran out . Nowadays there is no reason for such a hack. > > I'm pretty sure you can do it in a Java applet running inside your > browser too, and taking advantage of the browser's SSL transport > capabilities. > > If you move up to current versions of Mozilla from 4.7, your program > could also dynamically load with the NSS shared libraries that come with > it, and use the SSL support for outgoing connections. So you wouldn't > need OpenSSL .
Thanks bunches Julien, In fact, i am trying to understand if i could build a small C, Perl, shell program or whatever like this that could establish SMTP connection to a mail server that requires SSL encapsulation. It would be a long story to explain why i cannot install OpenSSL package on that workstation but let's say ..... If i migrate to Mozilla, can you tell me where i can find docs about such development and NSS shared libs ? -- Appreciate your kind support ;+) _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
