The smallest minimal example of an HTTPS GET request with openssl

[Ivan Medoedov]

You are right of course. I handle HTTP myself. A TLS connection example
will suffice.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 7:53 PM Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-users at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Ivan Medoedov wrote:
>
> > I've only managed to find this, but it seems to do too much for what I
> need:
> >
> > https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/SSL/TLS_Client
> >
> > Basically I need something like Go's http.Get("
> https://mysite.com/version")
> > to just get a one line of text from the server.
> >
> > I can't use libcurl, I have to use pure openssl.
>
> OpenSSL is NOT an HTTPS (client or server) library.  OpenSSL can
> establish a TLS connection, but does not implement anything like
> "http.Get".  That's what libcurl and the like are for.
>
> If you're willing to roll your own HTTP client code, then you
> can use OpenSSL for the TLS part of the HTTPS transaction.
>
> HTTP clients handle all sorts of complications over and above TLS:
>
>     * Proxies
>     * Redirects
>     * Client requests with bodies
>     * Authentication
>     * Chunked transfer encoding
>     * Content encoding (e.g. gzip)
>     * Cookies
>     ...
>
> None of these are in scope for OpenSSL.
>
> --
>         Viktor.
>
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