OpenSSL provides different features and tools for SSL/TLS related operations. s_lient is a tool used to connect, check, list HTTPS, TLS/SSL related information. Simply we can check remote TLS/SSL connection with s_client . In these tutorials, we will look at different use cases of s_client .
The basic and most popular use case for s_client is just connecting remote TLS/SSL website. We will provide the web site with the HTTPS port number. In this example we will connect to the poftut.com .
$ openssl s_client -connect poftut.com:443