[stunnel-users] setting up HTTPS service?

Thu Oct 26 08:50:50 CEST 2006

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:32:02PM -0600, joe at strout.net wrote:
> Complete newbie here, so please bear with me.
> 
> I want to set up HTTPS service on a Mac OS X (10.4.7) machine running a
> custom web server.  I imagine that Stunnel could be made to listen on
> the standard HTTPS port (443), do the encryption/decryption, and pass
> the resulting data to/from the HTTP port (80, or a custom port I
> specify).
> 
> This is probably very easy, but none of the documentation or examples I
> found covered this.  Has anyone done this?  Or if not, can you sketch
> out how I would go about it?  Any gotchas or caveats I should be aware
> of?

A quick Google search for "stunnel HTTPS wrapper" turned up
http://www.stunnel.org/examples/https_windows.html among others.
Even though the instructions there are for Windows, it could be useful
as a starting point - the basic procedures (configuring OpenSSL,
creating a self-signed certificate, the basic stunnel config file) are
pretty much the same for most OS's.

Hope that helps!

G'luck,
Peter

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