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Java Network Programming, Second Edition
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Java Network Programming, Second Edition

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
760 pages
21h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Methods of the SSLServerSocket Class

Once you’ve successfully created and initialized an SSLServerSocket, there are a lot of applications you can write using nothing more than the methods inherited from java.net.ServerSocket. However, there are times when you need to adjust its behavior a little. Like SSLSocket, SSLServerSocket provides methods to choose the cipher suites it uses, to manage sessions, and to establish whether clients are required to authenticate themselves. Most of these methods are very similar to the methods of the same name in SSLSocket. The difference is that they work on the server side and set the defaults for sockets accepted by an SSLServerSocket. In some cases, once an SSLSocket has been accepted, you can still use the methods of SSLSocket to configure that one socket rather than all sockets accepted by this SSLServerSocket.

Choosing the Cipher Suites

The SSLServerSocket class has the same three methods for determining which cipher suites are supported and enabled as SSLSocket does:

public abstract String[] getSupportedCipherSuites(  )
public abstract String[] getEnabledCipherSuites(  )
public abstract void     setEnabledCipherSuites(String[] suites)

These use the same suite names as the similarly named methods in SSLSocket. The difference is that these apply to all sockets accepted by the SSLServerSocket rather than to just one SSLSocket. For example, this code fragment has the effect of enabling anonymous, unauthenticated connections on the SSLServerSocket server ...

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