[3107] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: SSL and NSAPI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Fan)
Fri Sep 27 14:13:42 1996
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:06:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joel Fan <jfan@phaos.com>
To: Vikul Khosla <s5uvxk@fnma.com>
cc: uunet!ns2.rutgers.edu!www-security@uunet.uu.net,
netscape.com.!robm@uunet.uu.net, Ubiquity.com.!vikul@uunet.uu.net
In-Reply-To: <199609251400.KAA13089@tachyon.fanniemae.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Dear Vikul,
You can use the SSLava toolkit (which implements SSL in Java)
for server-side Java to accomplish your task. You may visit
www.phaos.com for an evaluation copy.
>
> I need to have SSL client capability from within a NSAPI plug-in. Basically,
> the plug-in sets up https connection to another secure server.
>
> I was hoping to use the built-in SSL libraries in the commerce/enterprise
> servers, and used the SSL reference implementation as a starting point to
> figure out the functions that needed to be called ... SSL_Create,
> SSL_Handshake etc. However, I ran into unresolved references. So either
> the symbols for these functions have been mangled or else the client side
> functionality does not exist in these server products.
>
Thanks.
-Joel
