Secure Sockets / SSL

Whilst trying (and failing) to make an sftp connection to my Mac I googled for ssl & secure sockets for RISC OS and found a page claiming that the WebsterXL securesockets module could be downloaded for free. Yippee, I thought until I tried it – dead page.
(See http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/webster/index.html)

I did find a copy of a module name SecureSockets in the Grapvine app in my copy of nutPi but it still didn’t help ftpc make an actual sftp connection :-( Is that the module I’m supposed to use?
Nettle fails to connect with either telnet or ssh, with or without the found module loaded, and !SSH can do ssh ok.

I’m trying all this because Omni/lanman is driving me nuts by only showing some of the files in the directories I look at… and right now I can’t get Sunfish to work either.

Whilst trying (and failing) to make an sftp connection to my Mac I googled for ssl & secure sockets for RISC OS and found a page claiming that the WebsterXL securesockets module could be downloaded for free. Yippee, I thought until I tried it – dead page.
(See http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/webster/index.html)

Try the vendors:
http://www.rcomp.co.uk/

Ftpc supports ftps not sftp and yes it’s the correct module.

I’ve been quite happy using Nettle with Ron’s port of putty for all my SSH/psftp needs:
http://homepages.woosh.co.nz/ron.may/

On a similar subject, if I want to make HTTPS connection in C, is it best to use the SecureSockets modules, or is there a simple port of libssl? I’d rather use libssl just like I would in UNIX if that’s possible.

Cheers

Garry

There is a port of libssl in the GCCSDK autobuilder which is a cross-compile framework that runs on Linux and other platforms. While it can build a library you can link with your program, it doesn’t appear to package the library itself for download (made slightly more complex because GCC now emits ELF libraries not AOF that the Norcroft compiler requires). So you can do it, but not at present run the compiler on RISC OS.

Thanks Theo, maybe I’ll look at the SecureSockets module too. I’d probably rather avoid GCCSDK etc. and do everything on my RISC OS box.