EEE: Binding erlang ssl to ports < 1024

After a bit of hair pulling, I finally worked out how to get erlang's inets to bind to port 443 and service https requests. Again, I am using R13B04 (erts-5.7.5) on Fedora 13.

I found this page on erlanganswers.com which said to use setcap on Linux > 2.6.24. Unfortunately this didn't work. After clearing the hair off my keyboard, Running "netstat -ptl" while temporarily serving https on port 8080 showed me that beam was not doing the listening, but ssl_esock.

setcap "cap_net_bind_service=+ep" /usr/lib64/erlang/lib/ssl-3.10.8/priv/bin/ssl_esock

No need to setcap any other file except this one.

Below is a "443.conf" file that configures inets httpd to serve https only. Look at my previous post on starting inets http server for the commands to start it.

[
 {modules, [
  mod_alias, 
  mod_auth, 
  mod_esi, 
  mod_actions, 
  mod_cgi, 
  mod_dir, 
  mod_get, 
  mod_head, 
  mod_log, 
  mod_disk_log
 ]},
 {port,443},
 {server_name,"localhost.localdomain"},
 {server_root,"log"},
 {document_root,"secure"},
 {erl_script_alias, {"/test", [test]}},
 {socket_type, ssl},
 {ssl_certificate_file, "localhost.pem"},
 {error_log, "error.log"},
 {security_log, "security.log"},
 {transfer_log, "transfer.log"},
 {mime_types,[
  {"html","text/html"},
  {"css","text/css"},
  {"js","application/x-javascript"}
 ]}
].