{"id":322,"date":"2012-01-17T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/?p=322"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:29:13","slug":"connecting-to-https-services-from-the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/2012\/01\/17\/connecting-to-https-services-from-the-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to HTTPS services from the terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little brain issue prevented me from remembering how to connect to a HTTPS service on the command line. NetCat doesnt seems to work, it just hangs.
\nFortunately after wasting sometime i recalled how to do it in not one but 2 ways:
\nOption 1 : ncat<\/strong> (part of the nmap tool kit)<\/p>\n

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root@bt:~# <\/span>ncat --ssl<\/span> www.phillips321.co.uk 443<\/span>
\nOPTIONS \/<\/span> HTTP\/<\/span>1.1<\/span>
\nHost:www.phillips321.co.uk
\n
\nHTTP\/<\/span>1.1<\/span> 200<\/span> OK
\nDate: Tue, 17<\/span> Jan 2012<\/span> 15<\/span>:24<\/span>:24<\/span> GMT
\nServer: Apache\/<\/span>2.2.21 (<\/span>Unix)<\/span> mod_ssl\/<\/span>2.2.21 OpenSSL\/<\/span>1.0.0d PHP\/<\/span>5.3.6
\nX-Powered-By: PHP\/<\/span>5.3.6
\nVary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
\nCache-Control: max-age=3<\/span>, must-revalidate
\nWP-Super-Cache: Served supercache file<\/span> from PHP
\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked
\nContent-Type: text\/<\/span>html; charset<\/span>=UTF-8<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Option 2 : openssl<\/strong> (part of the openssl tools)<\/p>\n

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openssl s_client -connect<\/span> www.phillips321.co.uk:443<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Be warned though, using the openssl was will echo out all the certificate details….<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little brain issue prevented me from remembering how to connect to a HTTPS service on the command line. NetCat doesnt seems to work, it just hangs. Fortunately after wasting sometime i recalled how to do it in not one but 2 ways: Option 1 : ncat (part of the nmap tool kit) 12345678910111213root@bt:~# ncat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[75,128,129,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillips321.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}