The reason was license restrictions on the redistribution of the libraries. Someone from the team can speak more authoritatively on this, but basically, the security extensions (JSSE, et al.) are strictly export controlled, so just packaging them in with Tomcat wasn't possible, even though they could be freely downloaded from Sun.
And I think I spoke in haste, (and under the influence of the pain killers they gave me for my wisdom tooth extraction today. Ouch!) It was 3.x that you needed to recompile yourself. Starting with Tomcat 4, you needed to install the JSSE library, but the binary is smart enough not to break if it's missing. Hmm... Sorry about the confusion. In any case, I assure you SSL works. I use it with Tomcat 4.0 and 4.1, and I used it with 3.2 and 3.3 before that (where I had to recompile it myself.) What errors are you getting? -Ian On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 06:32 PM, neal wrote: > REALLY?!?!?! > > You actually have to build it yourself?!?! Oh my gosh! Why on earth > would > they do that? > > That's a very interesting tip though. I'll look into version 4.1. > Perhaps > that's the easiest solution. > > Thanks. > Neal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian McFarland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:14 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Cc: neal > Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0 - SSL DOES NOT WORK! > > > Did you build it yourself, with the necessary libraries on the > classpath? 4.0 doesn't support SSL out of the box; you have to compile > it with the libraries on the classpath, and I forget what else. I've > done it before, and it worked fine for me. Finding the docs on how to > do it was the hard part. I count it working for me as a proof that it > does work. ;-) > > 4.1 works with SSL out of the box, so you might want to try that. > > -Ian > > On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 04:00 PM, neal wrote: > >> Alright, >> >> Two solid days of troubleshooting between myself, a system admin, and >> a >> technical guy from Thawte and we've following the directions >> explicitly and >> tweaked everything we can think to tweak. I think I am ready to >> declare >> that... SSL DOES NOT WORK WITH TOMCAT 4.0 ... unless someone can prove >> me >> wrong?!?!?! >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
