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Re: Talking to a raw SSL Socket (aka TCP/IP/SSL)

From: Raymond DeGennaro II <ray.degennaro_at_insightbb.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:31:31 -0500

At 15:06 +0200 2006/09/15, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Raymond DeGennaro II wrote:
>
>>>From my point of view, I'd love to see cURL enhanced to handle a
>>><socket://> URL, but I understand why that could be unrealistic.
>
>Well, that's pretty much what telnet:// is, isn't it?

Kind of, but I can't just do something like:
        curl telnet://1.2.3.4:5678 --data-ascii "blah blah blah"
to throw a chunk of text at socket via SSL and get the response back, can I?

Ray
Received on 2006-09-15