Ian: JHS https
It should be possible to do this and it would be desirable to have. I would be happy to work with you on this and can promise that the result would become part of JHS. I had the core part of https working years ago as part of a project to support websockets. The handshake is similar. It wasn't too difficult but unfortunately the project was dropped. I wonder if web sockets would be a better, more interesting, and much better performing alternative for your application. Let me know what you find and how what suggestions you have for proceeding. This comes up as particular to apple, but is in fact of interest to all. Let's move this discussion to beta. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Can JHS be configured to connect via https instead of http? > > If the answer's "no", why do I want it? -- > > I'm writing Apple apps using Xcode + Swift which communicate with JHS used > as a local server. I have some working prototypes and I'm about to offer > these as betas. > > Apple have brought in something called App Transport Security (ATS) which, > put simply, deliberately makes life difficult if the client insists on > using http:// instead of https:// to connect with the server. Even over an > SSH "tunnel" on the same machine. > > ATS can be overridden (as I have been doing), but only as a temporary > expedient (says Apple), and the resulting app will not get accepted for > sale on App Store. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
