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Shriram
Shriram

Reputation: 4421

check a host is accepting https conection

How to check a host is accepting https connections or not? Since i don't have the permission to access the host. Is there any tools/utilities, which checks the machine is accepting https connection or not?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 54

Answers (1)

DaSourcerer
DaSourcerer

Reputation: 6606

I think your best bet is OpenSSL's s_client. This would look something like this: 

$ openssl s_client -connect host:443

The next best thing were to try with netcat:

$ nc --ssl host 443

In both cases, you will have to send a HTTP request "by foot." If you successfully establish a connection to the given host, you will have only shown that something SSL-ish is listening on that port. In the case of netcat, it will look something like this:

$ nc -v --ssl host 443 <<EOD
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: host
Connection: close

EOD

Another option were cURL, if you do not wish to deal with the messy details of HTTP:

$ curl --http1.1 --tlsv1 -Iv https://host

Upvotes: 1

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