Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

[Jim Sims]

Have you tried a web monitoring  tool?  So you can watch the traffic back and forth?

I use "Charles" on OS X.

sims

On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Terry Judd wrote:

> I don't think that's the problem. I know at least one of the sites has a
> session cookie but that doesn't seem to be involved in the initial
> authentication. One of the sites definitely doesn't use any cookies and I
> have the same problems even if I only try to connect to this site.
> 
> Terry...
> 
> 
> On 25/10/10 7:42 PM, "Jim Sims" <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe there is a cookie involved somewhere?
>> 
>> 
>> sims
>> ---
>> 
>> On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Terry Judd wrote:
>> 
>>> Attention web gurus,
>>> 
>>> I’m probably going about it all wrong but I’m still struggling to retrieve
>>> data from a series of secure (https) websites. Each of these sites requires
>>> a username and password and I can post these along with the url and am able
>>> to retrieve the expected result but ONLY if I set libURLSetSSLVerifaction to
>>> false. If I don’t do this I get nothing back from the url – a blank result.
>>> While setting libURLSetSSLVerifaction to false gets things moving I suppose?
>>> that doing so means the transaction isn’t really secure?? I’ve tried setting
>>> the sslCertificates (by first loading the sites in Firefox and exporting the
>>> certificates) but that doesn’t seem to work. I’m moving well past my comfort
>>> zone with this stuff and am close to admitting defeat – but I really need to
>>> get this stuff working for a major edu project I’m working on.
>>> 
>>> Rev 4.5 – OSX 10.6
>>> 
>>> Any tips or ideas?
>>> 
>>> Terry...
>>> 
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>>> Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
>>> Medical Education Unit
>>> Melbourne Medical School
>>> The University of Melbourne
>>> 
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>> 
>> sims
>> 
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