Should I be able to simply preface the URL with https: in order to access, say, the tomcat index.html using SSL? Put another way, http://mymachine/index.html works (I changed the port for http to 80 from 8080), but https://mymachine/index.html fails with Tomcat's error msg reading: Ctx( ): IOException in: R( /) Socket closed According to other docs I've read this should 'just work' . What am I missing here? Details of installation: I have installed tomcat 3.2 and followed the instructions provided by the docs for placing the SSL jar files in the right places etc. When I come to gen a key, though I am told that RSA is an unknown algorithm. Being outside the US, I assumed I was forbidden from using RSA so generated the key without specifying the keyalg. Starting tomcat is no problem and on startup it reports that it has a httpconnectionhandler on 443 (I changed the socket from 8443) as I read 443 is the default for the browsers Cheers, --Tom
