Hi Michael, For restlet I think it is more http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.1/13-restlet/27-restlet/325-restlet/37-restlet.html and http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.1/jse/ext/org/restlet/ext/httpclient/HttpClientHelper.html that you need. The page you cite applies more to Restlet-Servers (and from your description you'd want a Restlet-Client at the Magnolia end).
Regards from Vienna, Richard Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Michael Wechner Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. März 2012 13:57 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [magnolia-user] Using SSL to connect from Magnolia (acting as client) to another server Hi Richard Thanks very much for your feedback. Re Restlet and SSL I guess you mean the following: http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.0/13-restlet/28-restlet/153-restlet.html right? I was assuming that Magnolia would be offering some "global/generic" configuration to set the SSL related properties and which could be re-used by the various/other components, but what you are describing below sounds good as well. Thanks Michael Am 13.03.12 11:16, schrieb Unger, Richard: Hi Michael, AFAIK magnolia doesn't provide anything directly here, but it's easy to do. We've integrated SOAP WebServices via Axis, and more general REST Services via commons-httpclient. Both are working well, and weren't hard to implement. If you're handling the communication yourself, I would use something like Apache commons-httpclient which makes http-requests a bit easier to handle than just using an URLConnection. In particular, for SSL-Auth take a look at AuthSSLProtocolSocketFactory and associated documentation. You'll only need to mess with trustStores and such if you need to accept self-signed certs from the server, or need client-authentication. If you want a bit more "structure", using SOAP via Apache Axis, or using the Restlet (www.restlet.org<http://www.restlet.org>) framework can be good solutions. Both allow configuring SSL authentication. Depending on your application, you can perform the backend calls in the execute methods of your Model classes. That's a synchronous way of doing things, so your requests will take longer to process since the backend-call has to complete before page rendering proceeds. One way to mitigate that is to render the basic layout of your pages without any backend-requests, and use AJAX and Magnolia's direct-paragraph-access feature to render individual paragraphs that make the backend requests once the main layout has loaded. Also, remember that there will potentially be many parallel requests, so you need to do things like use the MultiThreadedConnectionManager (if using commons-httpclient) and consider synchronization if using shared resources. Regards from Vienna, Richard Von: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Michael Wechner Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. März 2012 09:09 An: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Betreff: [magnolia-user] Using SSL to connect from Magnolia (acting as client) to another server Hi What is the best way to connect from within Magnolia (acting as a client) with SSL to another server, e.g. some REST based back-end service? I guess one possbility would be to set system properties such as for example javax.net.ssl.trustStore inside my custom code? Or is there a more generic way how to do something like this with Magnolia? Thanks Michael ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
