Quite Right! I did manage to get RSA key generated and all is happy.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Little [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: simple SSL question running Tomcat3.2 stand-alone
I might be wrong but I thought browsers only could handle RSA
algorithms. If you use another algorithm it won't work.
Tom Waite wrote:
>
> 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
