For the experienced - stunnel and port 80

[Chuck Swiger]

ODHIAMBO Washington wrote:
> I am running apache+modssl on port 443. I want stunnel to listen on port 80,
> and then connect to port 443 instead, so that the users can just type
> www.domain.tld and not https://www.domain.tld.
[ ... ]
> sockstat -l shows stunnel listening on port 80, but in the life of me, I
> cannot just connect to that box if I do not use https://.... 

HTTP doesn't have the equivalent of STARTTLS for negotiating SSL over a 
plain HTTP connection; you have to specify https:// in the URL.  Your 
attempted use of stunnel isn't going to do anything useful in terms of 
encrypting the connections between the client and web server.

To solve the original problem, create seperate virtual domains for the 
site on port 80 and 443, and in the virutal section for the port-80 
version do a:

Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.tld

-Chuck