topic Re: Web Services API and SSL Alfresco in Alfresco Archive

Web Services API and SSL Alfresco

nkhoang — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:04:39 GMT

Hi all,I have encountered some issues when I used Alfresco Web Service API to communicate with the ALfresco Repo running on SSL (https).This is the way I configured my tomcat to run it on SSL.<Connector port="8463" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSp

Re: Web Services API and SSL Alfresco

chapeaurouge — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:03:21 GMT

You need to import your web server certificate into your client with keytool.
Then in your code, you need to include the following:

System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "/path/to/.keystore");
        System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "password");‍‍

Re: Web Services API and SSL Alfresco

bwakkie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:56:53 GMT

I guess that putting passwords hardcoded in a conf file isn't a very good idea. Can't you use ssl keys?

Re: Web Services API and SSL Alfresco

chapeaurouge — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:30:39 GMT

Maybe, I don't know. I just protect my conf file by setting restrictive permissions. These specific lines are in my code (.class) files… I don't fear much reverse engineering in my company (but who knows).