Re: ssl vs. servlets

2003-12-08 Thread Ed Robbins
SSL has nothing to do with user authentication. SSL simply implies a secure connection between the two end points of the transaction. As far as user auth is concerned you would still have to authenticate the user when using an SSL connection. Ed zvi gutterman wrote: Hello, 1. Can someone p

ssl vs. servlets

2003-12-08 Thread zvi gutterman
Hello, 1. Can someone point out some benchmark comparing Apache (and other webservers) performance while using SSL vs. Servlet. Number of connections, CPU load, etc? 2. Besides encrypting important data (such as credit cards), which I want to make sure no one is reading along the way to the