[hunchentoot-devel] Using SSL

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:59:24 -0800, Jeffrey Cunningham <jeffrey at cunningham.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to understand how SSL works with hunchentoot. I set up a
> CA for the domain 'achilles.olympus.net' following the openssl
> documentation which produced the public key cacert.pem and the
> private key private/cakey.pem.

Is the private key associated with a password?

> Then I started up a server as follows:
>
> (hunchentoot:start-server :port 4243 
>   :ssl-certificate-file "ca-cert.pem"
>   :ssl-privatekey-file "private/ca-key.pem")

Are you sure the files are found?  Did you try with absolute
pathnames?

> When I browse to the url: 
>
> https://achilles.olympus.net:4243/test
>
> It times out with "Done" and a blank page (no html, no text).

Which Lisp implementation are you using?

Cheers,
Edi.