Your applet itself would have to speak HTTPS. A socket connection opened
from an applet does not go through the browser, it's a direct connection
from the applet to some other communications endpoint. There is no
tunneling in this case.
Dave Neuer
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Frankewitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 3:52 AM
Subject: mod_ssl and servlets
>hello, may be the wrong discussiion group, but only may be.
>
>After having compiled Apache for NT I tried to use ssl-connections between
>applets and servlets. It is possible to connect in the background from an
>applet via https to the servlet and get an valid response.
>
>I really wonder wether the connection is tunneled through the
browser-apache
>connection and is secure too?
>There is no error in the log-files - surprising or not :-)
>
>but no the question: if it is really tunneled, and the handshake-part is
>done by the browser, does anybody know, how it is possible to allow *only*
>secure connections to the servlets-zone, because the directory "servlets"
>seems to be only a virtual one?
>
>thanks a lot
>
>thomas
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