# HTTPS URL Handler

Ashish Khetan (khetan@cmu.edu)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:22:23 -0400

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    Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:22:23 -0400

    From: Ashish Khetan <khetan@cmu.edu>

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, khetan@cmu.edu

    Subject: HTTPS URL Handler

Hello,

Can you give a ball park estimate of when the following will be
implemented ?? Is it likely to be in the JDK 1.2 production release ??
When will this be available as a standard extension to release 1.1 of
the Java platform ?? Frankly I need this now and will make my work so
much easier.

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HTTPS URL Handler

The java.net.URL class supports, without any modification, the
https://host/object style URL. This represents one of the most common
APIs to SSL on the client
side; it layers the HTTP protocol over SSL. In many environments,
firewalls support tunneling of HTTPS through corporate firewalls to
Internet web servers such as
those for banks and brokerages, providing a richer programming model
than that which is available to socket level programmers.

A common way to use such URLs is to use HTTP's POST method to send a
request to a remote object, for which a response is returned. This can
be viewed as an
easily used "object oriented RPC", secured using SSL's privacy and
authentication features.
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Keep up the good work !!!

Thanks

Ashish Khetan
khetan@cmu.edu
Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University

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