I'll have to dive into this as well. So far I have not done any hands-on work to see
what would be
the best solution for us.
One of the routes I was thinking of is to use the tunneling protocol. It works like a
breeze
without the encryption. I don't know whether it works with HTTPS. There is no
documentation
regarding HTTPS tunneling yet.
An alternative route I'm considering is to run SOAP (or XML-RPC) over HTTPS, but
probably we will
check (and try) whether we can live with the first solution: much cheaper.
The advantages of the latter solution are that:
- your client is independant of tunneling support
- you do not need to download some 2Mb of orion jars to run your client
- other clients / systems can connect through SOAP.
The downside:
- added complexity
- more effort
- you need more knowledge to build and run the stuff
Apart from the second advantage is the advantages are a long haul. So probably the
SOAP stuff will be
put on the bottom of the To Be Done Later list (you know the one that disappears when
the presure is
rising).
FE
On Thursday, April 26, 2001 7:22 AM, Streckel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Okay Okay :-))
>
> I'm using a standalone Java Client to connect the orionserver over the
> network.
> I want to use crypto. between client and orionserver.
>
> Thanks again
>
> tobi
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:34 PM
> Subject: RE: ...need urgent help!
>
>
> > A few more details please. Do you want to encode transmission from the
> Orion
> > server to a standard java application sitting on another node in a single
> > corporate LAN? Why? That would be no different than all of the other
> normal
> > LAN data flowing around in a corporation. If you want to encode
> transmission
> > >from an app server to a java client over the general Internet, you might
> try
> > making your java app into an RMI server, then save the stub and skeleton
> > files in the app server classpath. This will allow you to do a lookup of
> the
> > RMI server from the app server. You can then use JCE to generate a
> symmetric
> > key shared between the app server and the rmi server. Just encode your
> data
> > before sending it to the RMI server and decode it when it arrives.
> >
> > The actual details of all this is what I get paid for, and I don't feel
> like
> > typing that much.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tobias
> > Streckel
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:39 AM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: ...need urgent help!
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > how can I make an coded connection between orion an my standalone java
> > client?
> >
> > I think I must use the jce but how?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tobi
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
