Martin Redington wrote:
Martin is right, the SSL documentation is scanty on the client and the server side. We are currently working on a branch to separate the transport layer stuff (HTTP, HTTPS, authentication, who knows what else) so I don't think I want to take the time to document this version. As we don't have a release date for the new version, any documentation for SSL in 1.1 would be appreciated! Please reference Martin's bug at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14272 if you decide to take this on.On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 08:08 PM, Devon E Bowen wrote:The SecureWebServer class should support ssl, but I haven't found any useful documentation, and I can't get it to work. See my previous posts in the archives (http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=70) for more details. If you look further back in the archives, someone posted a code snippet how to get some secure functionality working, but it looks far fiddlier than it should be.I need to run a simple XML-RPC server and I like the Apache XML-RPC approach since it lets me write in Java. The fact that it includes a lightweight HTTP server is also nice since I have no need for any other web services on this machine. However, I need SSL and I don't see a way to easily make HTTPS work.
I will make sure that documentation is a deliverable for the 2.x transport layer code we are working on now.
Personally, I would scrap apache (not that I'm not a huge fan), and go with standalone tomcat, with a servlet to handle the xmlrpc requests.
I've got a neat generic little servlet that can register a list of handlers whose names and classes are specified in a properties file, and that uses Echo as a handler by default. I took the ProxyServlet class from apache-xml as a starting point, and it took about 10 minutes from there (I might be able to release this back to the project, if you're interested).
Let tomcat handle the ssl for you (I haven't got round to that bit yet, but I would hope that its fairly simple, robust, and well-documented in tomcat) ...
This is an excellent suggestion. -- Ryan Hoegg ISIS Networks http://www.isisnetworks.net
