Re: SSL Server

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Chris,

If you like, my RPG definitions for the GSKit APIs are here:
http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/copybooks/gskssl_h.rpgle.txt

I also have RPG definitions for the older, deprecated, SSL APIs at the 
following link:
http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/copybooks/ssl_h.rpgle.txt

Back when I started HTTPAPI (in the V4R5 timeframe) an IBMer told me 
that the SSL APIs were being phased out, and that I should use the newer 
GSKit APIs (which were brand new at that time.) So I only used the SSL 
APIs once, and then used GSKit from that point on. GSKit is available 
via PTF in V4R5 and is included with the OS in all V5R1 and higher releases.

I wrote an article titled "SSL Sockets from RPG? Of Course you Can!" 
that was published in the September 2006 issue of System iNEWS. The 
article contains a discussion, as well as an RPG example of SSL 
programming with the GSKit API.

If you have a ProVIP subscription with System iNetwork, you can read the 
article online, here:
http://tinyurl.com/sslfromrpg

Don't worry, it'll work without setting your cache batteries to failed 
state :-)


On 2/22/2012 12:37 PM, Chris Bipes wrote:
> I am starting to write my first SSL server.  The steps seem easy, as
> in about the same as non SSL IP.
>
> I am trying to see if IBM supplies the Headers for RPGLE with V6R1 or
> if I need to use someone's translations such as Scott's SockTut
> library?
>
> Then do I use the GSK or standard SSL?  Is the GSK being phased out
> or is my memory failing and that is the way to go?
>
> Can someone please steer me in the correct direction.