OpenSSL s_client
Once connected using c_client -connect, simply type HTTP on the command line to GET/PUT/POST data.
For example:
$ openssl s_client -connect host:port -cert client.pem -key clientkey.pem -CAfile cacerts.pem
Enter pass phrase for clientkey.pem: ********
[...]
PUT /api/rest/version/9/TPRGMPITEST/3DSecureId/12345678 HTTP/1.1
Host: [...]
User-Agent: [...]
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 367
Connection: close
{"3DSecure":{ ... }}
This works for JSON data. If you need to POST a html form, set the Content-Type header to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", e.g. something like:
POST /bin/login HTTP/1.1 Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, */* Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8000/login.html Accept-Language: en-us Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Content-Length: 37 Connection: Keep-Alive Cache-Control: no-cache User=Peter+Lee&pw=123456&action=login
Other Options
For examples of using telnet to send raw HTTP commands:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CouchIn15Minutes
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/webprogramming/HTTP_Basics.html
