Testing SSL Connection

Sometimes you need to test a web server manually to see how the protocol behaves at lower levels. So you can do something like:

telnet 192.168.1.1 80
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0

But what if the only open port is HTTPS, then you can use this:

openssl s_client -connect 192.168.1.1:443
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0