[Sheflug] https

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Henderson <ros.h [at] virgin.net> writes:

    Ross> does anyone know how to make diald hold a HTTPS connection
    Ross> open for longer than 30 seconds?

I would suggest blowing off diald until you've the problem figured out.

    Ross> there are no config settings for HTTPS only tcp.www and
    Ross> tcp.ssl !!!  i thought HTTPS was ssl but the time out has no
    Ross> effect.

I don't know what tcp.ssl might be; ssl is not a TCP service, it's a
protocol layer above tcp.  Sort of like a tunnel.  You can use it on
any service as long as the server understands it:

steve@turnbull:Travel$ egrep -i 'https|ssl' /etc/services
https           443/tcp                         # MCom
https           443/udp                         # MCom
nntps           563/tcp         snntp           # NNTP over SSL
nntps           563/udp         snntp           # NNTP over SSL
ldaps           636/tcp                         # LDAP over SSL
ldaps           636/udp                         # LDAP over SSL
imaps           993/tcp                         # IMAP over SSL
imaps           993/udp                         # IMAP over SSL
ircs            994/tcp                         # IRC over SSL
ircs            994/udp                         # IRC over SSL
pop3s           995/tcp                         # POP-3 over SSL
pop3s           995/udp                         # POP-3 over SSL
ssmtp           465/tcp                         # SMTP over SSL

(the qualification about server understanding it is why the s* and *s
srevices are separate ports from the base versions).

You need to tell diald to increase the timeout for service 443.

Alternatively, you may be able to tell your browser to send keepalives
on the https channel.

finally, you can do `while 1; do ping -c 1 www.interflora.co.uk; sleep
15; done'.  Hm?

Uh, Al, what was that you were saying about "reassuring buttons"?

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