Running CGI-BIN over https

Anon

Hello:

I was wondering if anyone knew how to run cgi-bin over https.
Does it require special configurations in Apache? If so what?
Does it need any special software aside from SSL and a valid Certificate?

Any thoughts and ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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yes, your apache needs to support ssl, check the website.
no.

HTTPS = HTTP + SSL
and that's all.
Everything is the same, except that the data is encrypted between client and server.

Anon

vincent.

thanks for your reply. i am hoping that you still have a few more moments to address a few more questions:

when you meant, "check the website" you meant www.apache.org right? which part? I tried using their search tool but came up empty. If you have a URL that you forward to me that will be great.
also you meantioned "HTTP = HTTP + SSL", I tried the following based on your idea:
Using a standard Apache build (1.3.19) with OpenSSL (the latest version) enabled and a home-cooked cert, I am able to use https:// (port 443)

However when I tried running a test.cgi

https://sampleserver.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi

It presented me with the "Do you trust this Certificate" message as expected but what's unexplanable was the server didn't seem to understand what was happening and just displayed the source code of the cgi-script!

The script is chmod 755 test.cgi and runs under plain http:// but I don't understand why https doesn't seem to work. Do you know if I have to configure a Virtual directory or something?

Please any steps that you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

I look forward to your reply.

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1) yup. I don't have the URL at the moment, but www.google.com is good at finding what you want.

2) That's right, HTTPS is just HTTP with SSL on top.
What you may need to do is tell the SSL version of apache where to get it's CGI scripts from.

Normally apache is configured to execute scripts when they are in the cgi-bin directory. Perhaps this is notthe case for the SSL version that you installed?