Do I need certificate for HTTPS Server

[Hellbard]

Hi I have one question I mentiond above: Do I need certificate for HTTPS Server?

I know that for SSL connection a server must have its own certificate. But is there any way to make server to create his own certificate and private key on its initialization?

I have client/server application and I know that client will never verify server certificate. I only need secure connection (not trusted). I want to start up server two ways. First on constructor are two parametrs createSrv(string privateKeyFile, string certFile) on second way there is just createSrv().

I read that poco support defaultContext, but if I understandt it right it will just set values to context, which I have in config file or if I have not key and cert tags in it server would not be initialiezed. So is there any way to make server to make it own key and certificate?

Again sorry for my english :o)
Thanks for your response

[peter]

> Hi I have one question I mentiond above: Do I need certificate for HTTPS Server?
>

Yes :-)
NetSSL is basically a wrapper around OpenSSL. As far as I know there is no way that
openssl automagically creates a server certificate for you.

The defaultContext only-initializes itself from a config file (which must contain
entries for the certificate plus a way to load the private key file).

br
peter