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Special Edition Using Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition
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Special Edition Using Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition

by Mark Wutka
May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
30h 13m
English
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Accessing Web Servers with SSL

One of the most popular uses of JSSE is in the area of HTTPS requests. That is, you want to write a Java program that accesses a Web server via HTTPS—either to retrieve data or to send data. Although you could write a socket program to mimic the HTTP protocol over SSL (that's all HTTPS really is—HTTP over an SSL socket connection), there's a better way.

JSSE comes with an HTTPS protocol handler that plugs into the Java URL framework to recognize requests for https URLs.

Listing 35.8 shows a program that performs an HTTPS GET request using the URL class.

Code Listing 35.8. Source Code for GetHTTPS.java
 package usingj2ee.ssl;import java.io.*;import java.net.*;public class GetHTTPS{ public static void main(String[] ...
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