Forum OpenACS Q&A: get_status doesn't work with https. Any workarounds on this?

Hallo everybody.
I am using in a procedure the get_status function, to check if a url is valid or not.
It works fine with http addresses, but it "brakes" when I try it with https addresses:
(example:
set bla [get_status "https://www.greenpeace.com/donation/donate.php?theme=default"]
returns an error:
ERROR: ..."ns_httpopen only supports HTTP"" (procedure "ns_httpopen" line 7) ...)

The only workaround I have done is to bypass at all the function when it is an https address (and not check it at all). Has anyone done anything to make this work? or is there an other function that works for both http and https addresses?

Konstantinos Kokkorogiannis,

ns_httpsopen[1] is available as a part of ns_openssl.

1. http://www.scottg.net/webtools/aolserver/modules/nsopenssl/tclapi/

hope that helps,

Torben