[htdig-dev] Re: ssl and 3.2.0b4-20021110

[Budd, S. <s....@ic...>]

Hello
  After much scrambling, I found the script  "handler.pl"  by Geoffrey
Hutchison <ghu...@ws...> which is used with
"external_protocols" to fetch https  pages. 
 
   IT WORKS A WONDER.

There is a small documentation issue .  In  attrs.html  under
"external_protocols" the statement  "The first field is a single character
that specifies the record type." appears.  In the handler.pl  the first
field is shown as "character:"   i.e. there are two characters.
     Also from the documentation it is not clear whether the  u  record is
mandatory or it is only needed for a redirect.  In the handler.pl  script
the u record is only reported if the Location header is returned from the
web server.