RE: wwwlib and SSL

Ok..I got the files. I tried to refer to the installation directions for
unix (http://www.w3.org/INSTALL.html#Unix) but they don't seem to work. It
doesn't find the 'configure' script itself (its not present in the
package..) and I can't move any futher. Any suggestions??

Thanks a lot,
Kaustubh

-----Original Message-----
From: Abhinav Rai [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: wwwlib and SSL


It is free and you can download it from w3c.org.  Click on libwww on the
left
hand side list of links

Kaustubh Deshmukh wrote:

> Hello Abhinav,
>
> Thanks for the inputs. Could you pl let me know where to get the www-lib
> from? Can I simply download it from somewhere?
>
> Thanks once again,
> Kaustubh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abhinav Rai [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: wwwlib and SSL
>
> If you are going to use solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 then you need to install
> EGD/PRNGD (Entropy gathering daemon) or install patch from solaris to
> support
> /dev/random.  Without this you application wont work (also on IBM and HP).
> If
> you use EGD/PRNGD then you have to add following line in HTSSL_init
>  RAND_egd(prngd_socket); (with surrounding ifdef for platform).  You may
> also
> need to do more work if you plan to user identity with your client code.
> For
> details on using trusted certs identity, key file. look at openssl
examples.
>
> Abhinav
>
> Kaustubh Deshmukh wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot Vic. How can I get www-lib? Is there a free download for
that
> > somewhere or we need to buy it?
> >
> > Appreciate your assistance.
> >
> > Kaustubh
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vic Bancroft [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:17 PM
> > To: Kaustubh Deshmukh
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: wwwlib and SSL
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Kaustubh Deshmukh wrote:
> >
> > > We have a requirement where we need to communicate to a socket server
> > > through https connection. This needs to be done through a C++
> application
> > > running on Solaris. Will this be possible using www-lib? How?
> >
> > You should take a look at http://www.w3.org/Library/Examples/wwwssl.c,
in
> > particular the following fragment,
> >
> >     /* Set the SSL protocol method. By default, it is the highest
> >        available protocol. Setting it up to SSL_V23 allows the client
> >        to negotiate with the server and set up either TSLv1, SSLv3,
> >        or SSLv2 */
> >     HTSSL_protMethod_set (HTSSL_V23);
> >
> >     /* Set the certificate verification depth to 2 in order to be able
to
> >        validate self signed certificates */
> >     HTSSL_verifyDepth_set (2);
> >
> >     /* Register SSL stuff for handling ssl access */
> >     HTSSLhttps_init(YES);
> >
> > Since you are using c++, the libwww function prototypes will need to be
> > declared as being external c calls.  For example, around your includes,
> >
> >   #include <iostream.h>
> >
> >   extern "C" {
> >   #define BOOL int
> >   #include <HTChunk.h>
> >   }
> >
> >   void main( int argc, char** argv ) {
> >     HTChunk * c = HTChunk_new ( 1024 );
> >     int s = HTChunk_size ( c );
> >     cout << "Chunk allocated at " << c << ", "
> >          << "of size " << s << "." << endl;
> >   }
> >
> > We may do this is to add a decoration to the top of the libwww headers
> > like,
> >
> >     #ifdef __cplusplus
> >     extern "C" {
> >     #endif
> >
> > and the corresponding
> >
> >     #ifdef __cplusplus
> >     }
> >     #endif
> >
> > more,
> > l8r,
> > v
> >
> > --
> > No bugs were harmed in the development of this software.
> >
> > http://elvis.dlogic.org/~bancroft/tiki