SSL using SOCK_TCPCONNECT

[Chris]

I'm trying to connect to a SOAP endpoint with SSL

    server$ = "api.betfair.com/global/v3/BFGlobalService"
    port%=443

    SOCK_INIT()

    sock% = SOCK_TCPCONNECT(server$, port%)

Everytime I try I get a -1 returned after about 5 seconds (which I guess is the timeout).

Any ideas?

Am I going about this the wrong way?

Thinking about this a little more...

What I think I need is the counterpart to NETWEBGET
Something like a NETWEBSET  (which doesn't exist in GLBASIC.... yet)

NETWEBSET("https://api.betfair.com/global/v3/BFGlobalService", 443,  "myxml")

Is there any equivalent, or am I going to have to do something "fruity" in C?

Thanks for any help in this... (hoping).

[Chris]

For anyone who's interested.

I used wireshark to sniff the packets, and it looks like SOCK_TCPCONNECT does NOT do any kind of SSL handling.  It just treats the port 443 as it would do for any other port.

If I needed to write a game that had secure TCP communication how would I go about doing this?

I would be grateful if anyone has any ideas.

[Kitty Hello]

No, I don't use SSL sockets. I might have to add a command to do that. Not sure if all platforms will support that.

[Chris]

Any Chance SSL could be added?  I bought GLBASIC some time ago, and its languished unused... This single feature would mean I would definitely use it.

[Kitty Hello]

I see if I can get it working. Might not be too hard. You want true sockets, or just curl?

[kanonet]

I would like to get this too! But about your question, i dont know, would cURL be able to connect to a 3rd party server, that dont uses cURL, but "real" secure sockets?

[Kitty Hello]

most stuff (dropbox...) uses curl. It's as if you type it in a browser. If, however, you want direct socket support to send raw tcp data, then something else has to be used.

[kanonet]

I think for me cURL will be all i need, but i dont know for others.

[Chris]

Sorry for the late reply... curl would probably do it for me. 
Just some way of doing standard protocols, nothing super low level is needed.

Thanks.
C.