Re: [Sheflug] https

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     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.

Probably a good idea. If you're a SuSE user, check out wvdial.dod - works
fine for me.

>     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.

Neither's 'www'. I think it's just a poor naming scheme; I assumed
www==http and ssl==https, but obviously that's not strictly correct ;)

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

Doesn't that mean the link will never go down, even when he's finished
using it? You'd have to ^C it, I suppose?

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

AFAIK, he's operating diald from commandline / rc.d, I don't really see
what point you're making? I'd *much* rather have a graphical tool to
interface with diald / wvdial.dod. It's kind of like running SAMBA without
using SWAT - for 99% of the time, SWAT does an excellent job & guarantees
not to screw anything. For some jobs, GUI interfaces are not only more
intuitive, they're more productive. People don't use them just because
they're pretty, there are more in-depth UI issues than that.

Cheers,

Alex.

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