On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:01 AM, <Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de> wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> schrieb am 27.08.2009 20:53:14: >> I'd assume that 'telnet hostname 443' is intended to be a test for >> an https web service - which should in fact not permit a connection >> without ssl encryption. The linux version of telnet probably tries >> to do some options negotiations before it says it is connected and >> perhaps the windows version doesn't. A better test would be >> wget https://adp.eease.com > > Just for completeness, s_client(1) would be an alternative for > testing purposes, too. > > Frank. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > This is a nice tool. Gives the following error sometimes. $ openssl s_client -connect adp.eease.com:443 socket: Connection refused connect:errno=29 Thanks for pointing this tool out. -- Tharun Kumar Allu ==============