Please disregard my previous question about whether WebServer works with TLS. I was mistaken. I had that working all along, which I remembered once I saw the "https:" URLs in the docs.
Campbell: I don't remember if I invented the "tls" property or if you did,
but it seems obsolete and misleading. The instructions at
http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/alphadocs/guide/ch06.html have worked just
fine for about a year now, without using either the "-tls" argument to Server,
nor the server.tls property. To use TLS, the user must specify the location
of the certificate file, and (for our first cut) we just use the existing system
property for that purpose. Regardless of our setting of TLS mode, things
won't work unless the user sets the JVM keystore property. Therefore, it
seems most simple to just decide to use TLS based on whether the user has
set that property. I say that the tls property/arg is misleading because
Server runs TLS mode just fine when the property/arg is not turned on.
I didn't know about the tls arg/property until today (if I knew before, I
have since forgotten). It is easy to forget since everything works great
without it, the property is documented nowhere (including the full
property list in the Advanced chapter), and the argument is documented
only in the Server javadocs (but not the WebServer javadocs). Therefore, I have invested considerable time in
testing our UNIX init script using TLS as documented at
http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/alphadocs/guide/ch06.html . For this
reason, I would very much prefer to just drop the tls argument/property.
Is it ok with you if I just remove the Javadoc entry for the -tls argument to Server? I don't think leaving the code in place will hurt anything, and we don't want to hold up the RC by testing code changes.
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