Hi RMG,
Thanks for the reply… and apologies for getting back to u lately.
i tried opening the url in the browse but I couldnt (page cannot be displayed)… may be some settings needs to be done, as I connect to client network remotely.
Hi Dev expert
,
Thanks for confirming the approach for SSL handshakein https.
I wonder, why I am not able to connect to the https site with basic authentication, which I could a few days back.
Also, I found a strange behaviour.
couple of days back, I could connect to the https url with pub.client:http even w/o user name pwd.
I guess this may be due to caching at some place.
And now, I could not connect to htps url even with user name/pwd.
while I dig in more, your expertise is most welcome. 
Thanks,
Venkat
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