[Building Sakai] ssl for webservices?

[Sam Ottenhoff]

HTTPS requires setup as it depends on a trust relationship from the browser
to certificate authorities to granted certificates.  I would recommend
setting up HTTPS using a front-end load-balancer/proxy.  The most common
one is Apache HTTPD.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, but we do not have any load-balancing setup for our local server.*
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> If I just try a simple local REST query  ( http://mysite/direct/site.xml) it works, but changing to https fails. (“Firefox cannot establish a
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> I noticed that the https connector was not enabled in server.xml, so I
> uncommented that, but then it fails on startup – apparently there is more
> required for SSL setup (need to create a keystore, etc.).****
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> Am I missing something here? :-)****
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> *From:* Sam Ottenhoff [mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com]
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> Web services over HTTPS should work fine.  Any issues are probably a sign
> of a mis-configured load balancer setup where Tomcat believes it is
> operating over HTTP not HTTPS.****
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:*
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> I found that using the examples of webservice logins (from Python) that I
> had to change it from HTTPS to HTTP, and then it all worked fine.****
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>  Is there any simple or standard way to enable SSL remote usage of the
> webservices, especially for authentication like this?****
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> (Or should it have worked “out of the box”?)****
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