I've made some progress with my stand-alone server using SSL but still can't quite get it to work. I'm hoping someone will have an new idea. I finally figured out how to correctly generate the CA files without passwords. I start the server like this: (hunchentoot:start-server :port 4000 :ssl-certificate-file "CA3/ca-cert.pem" :ssl-privatekey-file "CA3/private/ca-key.pem") When I point a browser at the url https://achilles.olympus.net:4000/test it brings up a dialog box asking if I want to accept this unrecognized certificate. I say "yes" and it then times out after about fifteen seconds without producing any html. I know it is going through the test html generator because I added a log-messages statement in it and it writes my message to the log. And I know the html generator works alright because if I run the same server without SSL it generates the test page as it should. Any ideas? Regards, --Jeff