Implementing HTTPS with Windows Sockets

[jforman]

HTTP is fairly easy, I can get that with no problem. But the RFC for HTTPS is hard to follow. How exactly do I establish a connection with a server? What is the structure of the messages in the TLS handshake?

[coder777]

for that purpose better use a library like poco -> http://pocoproject.org/

[jforman]

Well, that looks nice but I can't get OpenSSL to build. Is there any other way?

[coder777]

maybe libCURL http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/31058/#msg170183