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I have been successfully debugging several projects using Eclipse 3.4.1 with Zend Debugger and PDT. I now have a site running locally using https://. Have not been able to set a Debug Configuration in Eclipse that gets there. any ideas? Many thanks, Mary Edith

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If you want to see what is send/received by your application, but HTTPS hides it, then you can use normal HTTP query with stunel which "adds" SSL to socket transmission. I use it to monitor my axis2 application: How to see what Axis2 sends and receives?

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There is example in stunnel doc where client cannot use SSL: http://www.stunnel.org/examples/https_client.html

In your case you can configure stunnel like:

[https]
; https://www.mylocalsecuresite.com:443/myapp/AppService
accept  = 88
connect = www.mylocalsecuresite.com:443

Then in Eclipse dialog with URL use:

localhost:88

Communication between Eclipse and stunnel will be in plain text, but between stunnel and www.mylocalsecuresite.com:443 will be encrypted.

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  • Hmm. I don't know how to apply this to my situation. – user507882 Nov 16 '10 at 19:39
  • If you can debug HTTP then with stunel you can debug HTTPS which from you side will be HTTP: your program <-->HTTP<-->stunel<--HTTPS-->WebServer – Michał Niklas Nov 17 '10 at 06:13
  • Thanks for your help; I didn't see your answer until today. I don't understand enough to follow this suggestion. Where exactly do I put the "<-->HTTP<-->stunel<--HTTPS-->WebServer ". In Eclipse Debug configuration? – user507882 Nov 23 '10 at 17:18
  • No. If you have debugged HTTP then HTTPS encrypts input and output. If you want to see what your application sends and receives without encryption then put `stunel` between your application and apache or other https server. – Michał Niklas Nov 23 '10 at 19:43
  • http://localhost/mywebroot/stunnel/https://www.mylocalsecuresite.com? or http://localhost/mywebroot<-->stunnel<-->https://www.mylocalsecuresite.com? – user507882 Nov 23 '10 at 23:06
  • There's a dialog in Eclipse to set up a server to debug. THat's where I'm trying to put this. for regular http, "http://localhost" or "http://www.mysite.com" work just fine. I'm still not sure of the exact text you recommend. – user507882 Nov 23 '10 at 23:10
  • Ok, I will try this later today. I'm on a Mac, but found a place to download stunnel for mac. I'm debugging ssl because a drupal site I'm working on has ssl protection of all the admin pages; I've created a local copy of the site including the ssl, and would so like debugger facility as I develop!! – user507882 Nov 24 '10 at 17:16
  • I got this going! Many thanks for your patience. I now understand what stunnel is and what it does. Cheers to you! – user507882 Nov 27 '10 at 19:36
  • No problem :) Stack overflow is helpful. You can accept my answer so it will not be listed as unanswered – Michał Niklas Nov 28 '10 at 16:45