# Help with SSL and socket and certificate and idk **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 1, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-ssl-and-socket-and-certificate-and-idk/118963 "2007-11-01T19:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trukin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Trukin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trukin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-ssl-and-socket-and-certificate-and-idk/118963/1 "2007-11-01T19:27:06Z")
Hello, I’ve got a little problem I need to solve. I need to write an application that connects to a SSL-secured server. Pretty much, ive got to open a SSL-Secured socket, using a Certificate I obtained from the people I need to connect to. Do a handshake and send a command. Btw, this connection is to an EPP server. Any ideas of how to do it? If you have any ideas on writing it in another language, or if ruby is not the best language to use, please tell me. Thank You ---
**Author:** ![Trukin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Trukin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trukin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-ssl-and-socket-and-certificate-and-idk/118963/2 "2007-11-02T01:35:43Z")
On Nov 1, 1:13 pm, Trukin [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Any ideas of how to do it? If you have any ideas on writing it in > another language, or if ruby is not the best language to use, please > tell me. > > Thank You Ruby has a working openssl library so, while I’m not sure that it’s the best language for what you are attempting, it should work. The docs are here: [RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/) and there are examples included with the Ruby source (e.g. ruby-1.8.6/sample/openssl). You’ll probably want to check out the echo\_cli.rb example and it might be a good idea to check out O’Reilly’s ‘Network Security with OpenSSL’ if you aren’t familiar with using OpenSSL or SSL/TLS in general.