ssl

Calling a web service with self-signed SSL certificate

 

Say you want to invoke a remote web service deployed on a server that requires SSL. Say, the maintainers of the server couldn't (ot could not be bothered) getting a real, shiny, authetic, SSL certificate signed by a real CA. Or - more likely - let's say you are the one developing the service and the service consumer, and you don't have a valid certificate for each of your development machines (as you may know, ssl certificates are specific to a machine).

Problem: your http client used to access the service will never pass the ssl handshake.

Solution: see here: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/joe/archive/2005/07/06/1345.aspx for a real life saver

zvika 21/06/2009 - 16:42
ssl, Web Services
Flex file does not load when using SSL

Hi all,

 

I wrote a flex application, using BlazeDS that was working just fine.

 

Then I was asked to change my server to work with SSL.

 

After I changed the server settings to run with SSL, the flex file just refuses to load, without any error.

 

I started digging around and found some people who had the same problem and found a solution.

 

I followed this article: http://blog.crankybit.com/flex-remoting-over-ssl/ but the solution did not work for me.

 

In one of the forums, they recommended to install some kind of sniffer, and I installed IEWatch (http://www.iewatch.com/downloadie.aspx),

where I found out that the GET request for the swf file gets an error back:

Method: GET

chibban 14/01/2010 - 23:43
flex, Flex, ssl, XML, Flex
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