Can you get ssl support on a webserver.
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I must first tell that im a beginer on security things.
Im building a webserver in c++, for unix, linux and windows. And i wonder if i can use this library to get the webserver to support ssl(https)?.
Or at least understand how to code https support.
Sorry i didnt read your ISSL+HOWTO.txt first.
I see that you have made your own protocol,
I wonder if their are much to do to modify this protocol to follow the ssl protocol standard??.
Or its maybe better to build a new from scratch??
I think I really should finally answer this because it's a good question. :)
It would take a lot of changes to change issl into a fully ssl(v1/v2) compatible
protocol including cipher negotiation, mutual trust, x509, etc. The main
reason why I say this isn't worth it is because there's a
good alternative already out there: Please try
scl+sssl for this purpose: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/scl+sssl
I've already talked to the author, and know this project.. this is what you want for a small webserver SSL library.
iSSL will rather help you in designing your very own applications, especially lightweight ones, or fortifying existing protocols for internal use (such as issl-ircd, or issl-opennap, etc. etc.) almst-on-the-fly...