can you use Socket to get data from HTTPS URLs?

[Zetta]

Does socket work with HTTPS (SSL) secure URL's?

By the lack of replies to these posts... I'm worried it does not:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1933554#1933554

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4636413#4636413

I'm still learning the nuances of Socket,  and I've found almost all the example scripts I found use just HTTP (or FTP) and are mostly for in-design,  so I'm posting this here figuring you guys have th emost experience.

any thoughts?

[Andreas Jansson]

Hi,

The socket object has no cryptographic protocol implementation.

Using an external script (applescript or vbscript, depending on operating system) for communication is one way around this problem. I don't say it's a good way, but it would give access to objects such as MSXML2.XMLHTTP (a windows component) with https support.

Andreas

[Zetta]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Thats exactly what I did.   I wrote a small external script that then gets excecuted by extendscript to extract the data.  its a work around... but I was hoping I didnt' have to do that. 

Thankyou. 

[Trevor:]

Don't know if this will help but try https://community.woodwing.net/forum/ssl-http-requests-indesign-javascript-who-dunnit

[spicyDoge]

i relay https queries through localhost.