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[javaee-spec users] Re: Question related to https/secure connection

From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:19:05 +0200

Unfortunatelly there is no standard ServletContainer API defined in Servlet
3.0. I've contacted the spec lead of 3.1 to see if such API could be
possible, but still not answer :o(

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Christian Beikov <
christian.beikov_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I posted a question on stackoverflow regarding the retrieval of the
> secure/https port of the server my application is running on and got the
> answer that he thinks that this would be included in EE7 somehow.
>
> Question on Stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12165988/https-in-ee6-servlet-container>
> :
>
> Is there a way to retrieve the https port of the EE6/Servlet Container in
> a standard way? If not maybe a method to convert an URL in a standard way
> to use https?
>
> I know I could use a security constraint in web.xml, but the behavior is
> not configurable at runtime as far as I know.
>
> Maybe it is a bad idea to allow the user or admin to choose whether to use
> https or not?
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>



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