[Info-vax] Anyone out there running OpenVMS-7.3-2 ???

[David Froble]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> Anyone out there running OpenVMS-7.3-2 ???
> 
> If so I need you to do me a favor. Try these commands:
> 
> $ set def ssl$com
> $ @SSL$UTILS.COM
> $ openssl version
> $ openssl s_client -connect www.google.com:443
>    [...lots of certificate and crypto verbage...]
> GET / HTTP/1.0<enter><enter>
> 
> after the second <enter> you should see a web response similar to
> this:
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:07:05 GMT
> Server:
> [... lots of HTTP/HTML verbage...]
> 
> p.s. If you are behind a firewall, just connect to any old webserver
> that may be near by
> 
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
> 
> 
> 

I guess my question is, what are you trying to accomplish ?  Usually much easier to answer 
than just general questions with no apparent purpose.

VMS 7.3-2 is sort of old, but so is the SSL port to VMS, so perhaps not an issue.

Having recently spent significant trying to get some socket communications using SSL to 
work, I've found that certificates (which I had little prior experience with) can be 
interesting to set up.  Not saying that is your problem.