[stunnel-users] How do I do a one-time client connection?

Tue Jan 13 17:42:54 CET 2009

At 11:27 AM -0500 1/13/09, D. Richard Hipp wrote:
>On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Karl J. Runge wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, "D. Richard Hipp" <drh at hwaci.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'm sure I could get something like that to work on Unix.
>>>  Unfortunately, I need a cross-platform solution:; unix & windows.  
>>>  And
>>>  (as usual) the windows side is harder to work around.
>>>
>>>  What I really need to do is send a known amount of binary data in a
>>>  file over an SSL connection to a remote machine, then get back the
>>>  reply of unknown length into a separate file:
>>>
>>>      stunnel test.conf <test.in >test.out
>>>
>>>  I'm open to any suggestions on how to do this, (such that it will 
>>>  work
>>>  on unix and windows).
>>
>>  So it is not an https URL like in your example?  If it were, perhaps
>>  wget or curl for windows would be a better path than stunnel.
>
>I'm using a simple web-page fetch for debugging.  In actual use, the 
>situation is more complicated and wget and curl won't work.  Thx for 
>the suggestion, though.
>
>
>>
>>
>>  socat might be ported to windows, I'm not sure.  If writing a small C
>>  wrapper program for Windows is not acceptable, I'm not sure what you
>>  can do.
>
>socat appears to be linux-mostly.  (They have a MacOS-X port, which 
>suggests that it is not even "unix" neutral.)  So I'm guessing that 
>windows is out of the question there.

????
On OSX 10.5 I just:

cd socat
./configure
make
sudo make install

with no worries. Nothing special for Mac.

>Looks like I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and link against 
>OpenSSL directly.....

I am not sure why.  You can port tunnel via SSH or just use Stunnel 
at both ends orjust at the server and use whatever secur protocol 
wrapper to talk to it.

Tom