I agree. This could be worded so it makes the purpose explicit.
As of now, when you click this box, "security-enabled" attribute
of the http-listener is set to true. For such a listener the actual
*transport layer security* is provided by the enclosed element named
"ssl". Thus, this screen configures the following in (domain.xml):
<http-listener security-enabled="true/false" ...>
<ssl cipher-suites=" ..." alias=" ..." ../>
</http-listener>
Hope that explains.
-Kedar
Valtteri Kokkoniemi wrote:
> In HTTP listener configuration there's a checkbox labeled "Security".
> Documentation explains it only as "Security: Check this box if you want to
> create a listener that is secure".
>
> It seems highly likely that the said box probably should be checked in
> production or the server is going to do something I'd rather prefer it not
> to, but what? What does the checkbox actually do? This is interesting
> question, since setting will, without any further explanation, make
> listener "secure" or not and therefore the very definition of "secure" is
> left unexplained.
>
> I'd like to know what the setting actually affects and would suggest the
> explanation to be added to the documentation, too.
>