Re: sslstream and certificates

From: Jakob Nielsen (a_at_b.c)
Date: 05/27/05 

Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:03:18 +0200

>I guess I'm just not sure of what exactly it is you are doing. If your
>goal is to have a WinForms app communicate with a web server
>programmatically, .NET includes a System.Net.HttpWebRequest class that you
>can use for doing programmatic HTTP protocol stuff, including SSL.

> If your goal is to implement a custom HTTP Server, then it seems like it
> would be easiest to using the built in model in ASP.NET and use its
> extensibility mechanisms to implement your own HTTP handlers.
>
> However, if you really want raw stream based data that is SSL encrypted,
> then SslStream is probably the way to go. It really depends on the
> problem you are trying to solve and the level of abstraction you want.

I have an application which is a normal winforms app. It acts as a
backupserver and for that I want it to communitate with clients (that I also
create) in a secure way. Ssl seems fine. I also want that server app to
service users through a browser interface, so they can perform simple
maintanence and status checks from anywhere without the actual backup
client.
That is also comunication which should be conficential, so https seems lige
a good choice.

Currently i have a tcplistener accepting connections on port 80, parsing
http requests and sending back html formatede text and graphics. I do the
http and html myself.

Are you saying that I can grab a few classes from asp.net and use them here
without needing some webserver to run it all? I guess that makes sence. The
classes in asp.net which can read a http header and generate one, should
work no matter where you run them.

> Glad you are making progress anyway.

Thanks. *singing* We all get byyyyy with a little help from our groups :-)

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