I have created an application to do an HTTP post over client authenticated SSL. This was done using Sun JRE 1.4 with JSSE and a specific JCA provider underneath.
I followed the instructions for creating an SSL socket as described in the SSL guide:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/sslguide.html
As HTTP is actually a layer on top of TCP/IP sockets, would it not be better to be able to provide the HttpClient / HttpConnection with a socket, or even with an input- and output stream when it is created? There seems to be no way to create an HTTP session with a socket as parameter.
Otherwise, dynamic class loading could be used to return a specific / configurable SSL or plain socket implementation instead of the ones provided with this project.
Cheers, Maarten
PS I've changed Protocol.java and provided my own SocketFactory as was described in the above guide. Just to make sure: I do not need to donate any software to the apache foundation for doing this, don't I? Not that it would be helpful - it's very JCA provider and project specific.
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