The CGI app has to be running under some Apache instance. Setup SSL on
the Apache Instance and make everything going over port 8014 SSL
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:40 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Using SSL for CGIDEV2 requests
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
midrange.com
