Re: https login

Rick Weinbender <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:19:30 -0600
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.sqwebmail
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Brian Candler wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:58:34PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> > I tried it just now with only the
> > --enable-https=login
> > I get an initial login screen, but when I enter username and password,
> > it just takes me to a blank web page.
>
> Does 'view document source' on this page show anything?
>
> > >>Try this:
> > >>$ openssl s_client -connect www.yourdomain.com:443
> > >>GET /cgi-bin/sqwebmail?index=1 HTTP/1.0
> > >>Host: www.yourdomain.com
> > >> <blank line>
> > This is probably a stupid question, but where does the above code go?
>
> At the command line ('$' was meant to be a shell prompt)
>
> If you really want to see what your webserver is doing, then you bypass the
> web client and drive it directly; HTTP is a text protocol after all, easy
> for humans to write and read.
>
> For normal HTTP, you telnet to port 80. For HTTPS, you use s_client to set
> up an encrypted connection to port 443.
>
> Brian.

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> I get an initial login screen, but when I enter username and password,
> it just takes me to a blank web page.

>>Does 'view document source' on this page show anything?
It shows this below:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>SqWebMail - Copyright 1999-2003 Double Precision, Inc.</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/webmail/sqwebmail.css" />
  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya 8.0, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" />
  <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
  <!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.19 2003/08/12 15:16:29 mrsam Exp $ -->
</head>

<frameset rows="0,*" border="0">
  <frame src="http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail?empty=1" scrolling="no"
noresize="noresize"
  frameborder="0" />
  <frame src="http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail?noframes=1"
noresize="noresize" frameborder="0" />
  <noframes>
    <body>
    <h1>SqWebMail - Copyright 1999-2003 Double Precision, Inc.</h1>

    <p>Your web browser does not support frames. Although SqWebMail uses
    frames, 100% of functionality is available to web browsers that do not
    support frames.</p>

    <p><a href="http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail?noframes=1">Enter
without frame support.</a></p>
    </body>
  </noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
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>>$ openssl s_client -connect www.yourdomain.com:443
When I try this(above) at the prompt. I get this error message:
connect: Connection refused
connect: errno=29

Thanks,
-Rick