Hello,
I'd like to set up an stunnel between two hosts which currently talk to each other unencrypted. The communication between these two hosts is HTTP and sporadic. What I'd like to achieve is a permanent stunnel between the hosts regardless of their communiucation pattern. Is this possible? And if yes, how?
The current setup utilizes stunnel in server mode on the server side and stunnel in client mode on the client side. When a client issues a request, I see that an SSL tunnel is set up between the hosts and after the reception of the reply, the SSL tunnel is torn down. So, the question is, how can I nail down the SSL tunnel to be permanent?
Thank you in advance, Ramin
Ramin Dousti wrote:
I'd like to set up an stunnel between two hosts which currently talk to each other unencrypted. The communication between these two hosts is HTTP and sporadic. What I'd like to achieve is a permanent stunnel between the hosts regardless of their communiucation pattern. Is this possible? And if yes, how?
The current setup utilizes stunnel in server mode on the server side and stunnel in client mode on the client side. When a client issues a request, I see that an SSL tunnel is set up between the hosts and after the reception of the reply, the SSL tunnel is torn down. So, the question is, how can I nail down the SSL tunnel to be permanent?
As I understand you don't have a persistant TCP session between the two hosts. SSL just encapsulates the TCP data stream (HTTP request/response in your case), so it can't be persistant if the stream is not persistant.
BTW: Why do your need a persistant connection?
Best regards, Mike
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Michal Trojnara -
Ramin Dousti