[REBOL] http-port: open tcp://www.example.com:80 Re:
From: doug:vos:eds at: 9-Oct-2000 10:05
see discussion of https:// and secure pages...
http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/index.html?by=OneThread&t=%5BREBOL%5D%
20Reading encrypted pages with REBOL%3F%3F%3F
SSL (which is a fat pig of a security system, over 1 meg) will not be build
into REBOL
any time soon.. therefore you cannot do something like "read
https://webpages.com"
or "load/markup https://webpages.com".
However, REBOL can be used as the CGI backend for producing HTTPS:// secure
pages.
REBOL is not the only scripting tool lacking the ability to read HTTPS://
pages.
In fact, very few scripting languages allow you to "read" secure pages.
-DV-
