>
>Try mine. https://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de
>Server Version: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.0 mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
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Tnx for the URL, and yep ... it seems to work (sih...I thought I
found the solution to my problem).
I fear I'm falling into the trap of the 'cascading' problems, so very
typical when dealing with software (and even hardware). Meaning:
I got a problem A: I have very well working, self-written http server
on MacOS. But I need to add user/password control to it. For this
mechanism to make any sense a all (and not sending cleartext or
base64 passwords around) I have to make sure that the communication
between browser and server is somehow encrypted.
* my solution to problem A -> use https, this will do the trick.
openSSL seems to be a valid option here, but causing two new problems
B1 and B2:
problem B1: openssl isn't fully ported to the mac
problem B2: openssl uses something called certificates, which I don't
need but which openssl apperantly does
* my solution to problem B1: do the necessary extra porting work
myself, which I have done and seems to work (=compile and also the
server works fine when contacted by every browser on any platform
except the Mac IE5.0).
* my solution to problem B2: use a basic as possible certficate so I
don't encounter to much problems and can bypass this as much as
possible
now my question to you experts (which I think most of you will be ;-)):
1. Is there a way I can get rid of those certifcates at all and still
use openssl, this would give me the advantage that I don't implement
stuff in our software that we don't need nor use and hence cannot
cause bugs or support problems.
2. Does anyone already experimented a lot with openssl on MacOS ? Can
this person please contact me, I'm dying for some feedback here,
maybe something compiled but isn't quite acting as it should. Or
maybe there's a programmatic fix to allow the strange MacOS IE5.0
behaviour (=more or less tolerate the buggy behaviour).
anyway, many greetings and sorry if I bother you too much with my problems.
nick.
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