Connect to SSL proxy

Milivoj Ivkovic (mi@alma.ch)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:41:12 +0100


I have a little project in which I need to connect to a proxy using SSL. I
would appreciate any pointers to examples etc..., and also possibly to test
servers, if such exist on the net.

I have some Perl and LWP experience, but none with either proxies or SSL,
and I have neither a plain proxy nor an SSL server here to do some basic
testing.

The final goal is to connect to a local security program to access my bank
with LWP. The program (called SecureNet) acts like a proxy to which the
browser has an SSL connection. (It then uses IDEA to get the page from the
bank and return it to the browser, but that is SecureNet's business).

I would like to do things step by step: use LWP with a proxy, then with
SSL, then with both, and then go into the specifics of SecureNet and my bank.

Thank you for any help

Milivoj