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Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Thu Sep 7 08:39:33 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:19:02AM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:27 +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:22:55AM +0200, Nawal nassr wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >I try to use https with busybox instead of http.
>> >
>> >Is this possible?
>> 
>> Sure. Use something like stunnel.
>> 
>> PS: I'm pretty sure that you would have found that answer on your own..
>> HTH anyway
>
>I think its a valid question.

That was a tad too harsh, my apologies.

>stunnel takes space. I think mini_httpd with ssl support is smaller than
>busybox httpd + stunnel. I think thats was the reson we choosed to use
>mini_httpd instead of bb httpd. (it could be speed reasons too, or a
>combination - i dont remeber)

That's good to know. Still, if you arranged yourself with busybox' httpd
and don't want to throw in a different impl, then stunnel is one way to
achive that. Of course that does not mean that there are no other httpd
that may come with native ssl/tsl/whatever support :)



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