SSL/Socket

[Dud Hershey]

I wrote a simple java program that uses SSL sockets to connect to a site and
check the certificate, convert it to X509 and check some properties out of
it such as expiration date etc. This works fine.

Now the problem is that I cannot create sockets from inside a company
intranet to places in the Internet that I want to possibly check the
certificate. Is there a way to implement HTTPS protocol that could use
proxies to do the same thing or combine it with socket somehow?

These network layers are really in a gray area in my brains after so many
years of school, so feel free to correct if I'm mixing things up here

 

[Rogan Dawes]

I wrote a simple java program that uses SSL sockets to connect to a site and
check the certificate, convert it to X509 and check some properties out of
it such as expiration date etc. This works fine.

Now the problem is that I cannot create sockets from inside a company
intranet to places in the Internet that I want to possibly check the
certificate. Is there a way to implement HTTPS protocol that could use
proxies to do the same thing or combine it with socket somehow?

These network layers are really in a gray area in my brains after so many
years of school, so feel free to correct if I'm mixing things up here

In Java 1.5 and later, use the java.net.Proxy class, and the
java.net.Socket constructor that takes a Proxy parameter.

For earlier JRE's, you need to implement this yourself, check out the
HTTP CONNECT method.

Rogan