>From: Tim McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I am currently implementing SSL using XML-RPC with success. However I have >to write a ping method to ping the WebServer class every 10 seconds so that >my connection does not timeout. If I allow my session to time-out I have to >go through the handshaking again. My question is can get rid of the ping by >having the following: >1. Allow the WebServer class to have a configurable socket time out. >2. Is there a way for JSSE to reuse SSL sessions across TCP/IP >connections?
Don't know if this is relevant to your situation, but there was a problem with keep-alive which was only fixed in the recent J2SE 1.4.1 release. See the Java Developer Connection bug report: 4487126 HTTP Keep-alive timeouts are handled incorrectly Ron
