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Short version: How can I use SSL for my XML transfers using CGIDEV2 service
programs?

Longer version:

I have setup CGIDEV2 listening on its default config of port 8014, and have
written a couple of CGI programs to return some XML result sets. The XML
requests will be coming from a single source, namely ASP scripts running on
an off-site web host provider. That is all up and running just fine in a
test environment.

Now what I'd like to do is enable encryption on the XML data flowing between
to the web host provider before we put this in production. I don't think I
can get the web provider to install a VPN client as a tunnel, so I figure we
should be able to use SSL on the traffic. It doesn't appear to be as easy
as just using HTTPS://myip.com:8014 in lieu of HTTP as the protocol prefix.

How do I configure stuff so that the CGI requests will run via HTTPS? If it
matters, they do not also need the regular default Apache instance listening
on port 80 or generic HTTPS on port 443, so if necessary, I can use port 443
for the traffic.

Doug

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