Eric Wang wrote:
>
> Can someone answer my simple question?
>
> As we konw, there are a lot of servlet engines. Most of them don't
> implement SSL protocol. While, Most Web server implement SSL protocol.
> Am I right?
yes. But you don't really need to implement SSL in servlet engine.
>
> My question is: The servlet engine send the HTTP respond to the client
> directly without the SSL support provided by Web server, doesn't it?
> Actually,
> I want to know the whole flow of the HTTPS with servlet engine.
Servlet works with both HTTP and HTTPS without needing
SSL support in servlet engine. For Apache/Jserv, the flow is:
Browser <----> Apache <----> Jserv
Therefore by enabling SSL support in Apache, only the communication
between Browser/Apache is affected. I'm not too sure about the rest
of the webservers.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wang
>
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