Re: does java support https?

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:41:54 -0700

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:41:54 -0700
Message-Id: <199704080141.SAA19555@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>
To: Christine.Kuang@Ebay
Subject: Re: does java support https?

The Java Web Server has an implementation of the SSL protocol -- check it out,
from http://jeeves.javasoft.com.

There is also a Java Web Server hypermail archive of popular Q&A that
you might want to read through, at
http://jeeves.javasoft.com/hypermail/jeeves-feedback-archive/index.html

There isn't an SSL package in the base JDK. The JDK is exportable
world wide, and an SSL package would be an encryption API. (The fact
of having an encryption API in a software product renders it
non-exportable outside the U.S.)

As for using https from Java, it depends on whether or not you have a
package that understands the https protocol in your CLASSPATH. I
don't know of any straightforward way to accomplish that from Java
right now, but I haven't been tracking that specifically. In theory,
you should be able to open a URLConnection using the https protocol,
but it would depend on whether or not the browser Java classes
included support for the https protocol.

Marianne

> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:56:24 -0800
> From: Christine.Kuang@Ebay (Xueting [ Christine ] Kuang)
> Cc: Christine.Kuang@Ebay
> X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
>
>
> I'm working on a project which needs to send information
> such as credit card number to a web server, I'm thinking
> of using protocol https, does java support https?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Christine Kuang
> x30904
>