POST via HTTPS without HTTPS?

[Former Member]

Hey folks!

For a few days I'm facing a seriuos problem with a HTTPS request.

I want to send SMS via a third party SMS service (http://www.sipgate.de). I have to send my requests via HTTPS POST to their REST API but I always encounter the problem, that HTTPS is not installed/activated/whatever on my system.

I tried to set up the HTTPS stuff as shown in a lot of tutorials here, but I reached a point, from which it is apparently expensive.

Is there a way to connect to a HTTPS service without an active/installed HTTPS protocol on my system?

EDIT (1)

Errors:

(connecting via HTTPS)

[THR 5172] *** ERROR => IcmConnConnect: No service for protocol HTTPS started [icxxconn.c 2205]

(connecting via HTTP)

[THR 2088] *** ERROR => NiPConnect2: SiPeekPendConn failed for hdl 38 / sock 72064

Best regards, Chris

Edited by: Chris Metzen on Oct 25, 2011 11:19 AM

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

I'm not an expert, but I think the short answer is "no", you need to have some kind of security installed.

I ran into a similar problem when working on a web service that was supposed to be HTTPS in Production. In DEV/QA for testing purposes we used a "self signed certificate". All the work was done by our Basis admin, so I don't know the details. There is no additional cost for this.

Try searching by this keyword, hopefully it helps. Good luck!