From: Jake Cutter <cutter38@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T23:26:39+09:00
Subject: SSL man in the middle in Ruby?

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Guys,

I'm interested in implementing a simple SSL man-in-the-middle proxy
(intercepting traffic by offering my own certificate, then transparently
proxying the request out to whatever host was requested and the response
back to the client) using Ruby. This project is for research purposes
only...mainly helping me better understand SSL traffic, and also because I
may potentially need to do the same thing for work in Java (ugh) and would
prefer to prototype it using something lighter (like my fav language).

Does anyone know if there are any specific limitations that would prevent me
from doing this in ruby? Can you offer any pointers/suggestions in getting
started? I'm new to SSL in a programmatic sense, and even newer to SSL with
Ruby.

Thanks!
Jake

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