On 26 October 2017 14:36:03 BST, Christopher Schultz 
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>Mark,
>
>On 10/26/17 8:54 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 26/10/2017 09:31, Johan Compagner wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> now with LetsCrypt its easy (and free) to get https up and
>>> running even if you just use tomcat But the problem is those
>>> certificate must be renewed every 3 months This is easy to do in
>>> a crontab script (that does the renew and makes a java keystore
>>> again) So i can generate the pfx constantly just fine
>>> 
>>> But does tomcat monitor that file for changes and will it then
>>> use the new one without restarting the whole server?
>> 
>> Currently, no.
>> 
>> We have just added the ability to 9.0.x and 8.5.x to reload the 
>> certificate file on the fly.
>
>Can you point me to some specific commits that implement that? I've
>been dragging my feet on the work to reload *everything* and if the
>cert-reloading has already been done, then it seems that most -- if
>not all -- the work I expected to do is already done.

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1808482

Mark

>
>One of the reasons I hadn't done it yet was because I wasn't sure
>about which of the many Tomcat components should warehouse that
>code... there are so many layers and I don't understand exactly which
>ones are responsible for what things.
>
>Do these patches include replacing the SSLContext, or only the key
>material that is being used for the handshake for an existing
>SSLContext
>?

It provides a new SSLContext that will be used for all new connections.

Mark



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