From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-02-03T03:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick::HTTPServer and SSL

On Feb 2, 2007, at 03:30, Mike Houghton wrote:

> As a newbie this might be useful to other newbies...
>
>
> I needed to run a WEBrick::HTTPServer using SSL.
>
> First thing to do is visit
> http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php
> Just follow the steps in the summary if you are in a hurry.
>
> Once you have the files as described then the following code loads up
> the cert and key and runs in SSL mode. It's only demo code but is a
> reasonable starting point for running up a browser with an https://...
> url.
>
> Firefox 1.5.0.3 and IE 6.0 work fine against it - but for some reason
> FireFox 2 has problems - but I'm sure it's just a Firefox config  
> issue.

Define problems.