Perhaps I spoke too soon about having solved my own problem. Suppose I have a configuration file (test.conf) like this: client=yes connect=www.fossil-scm.org:443 Then if I run: stunnel test.conf And I type "GET / HTTP/1.0" on standard input, the webpage comes back on standard output. So far so good. But if I do: stunnel test.conf <test.in >test.out Where file test.in contains the "GET / HTTP/1.0" test, I get nothing back! I also tried this: cat test.in | stunnel test.conf And various combinations of this: openssl s_client -connect www.fossil-scm.org:443 <test.in In every case, when I type the GET line on standard input it works. When I redirect from a file it does not. Any hints on the cause of the very unexpected and very mysterious behavior? D. Richard Hipp drh@hwaci.com