Re: Answer to the question: Howto use KSoap with SSL in J2SE the easy way.

StonedMonk wrote:

> Hey Davide ::

> You are right on. (I posted something similar when you
> and I talked about this topic about 2 months ago) -
> http://ksoap.enhydra.org/project/mailingLists/ksoap/msg00903.html

Note that you were using j2me, I am using j2se ;D, two different beasts
(like little brother and bigger brother...)... same family but different
people with different quirks ;).

> This does work! :-) I was able to get kSOAP and Tomcat
> 4 to talk SSL - I used java's keytool to create local
> certs and if you're using Sun's emulator, all you need
> to do is make your cert "known". 

Some additional notes:

I have two users in the keystore referenced by tomcat.
One user is "tomcat" (as required by the doc I read on tomcat and SSL
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/ssl-howto.html )

The other user is "xxx" (which is our devteam's name).

In the keystore I registered xxx with my chief user name

Insert Keystore Keyword: imnotsocrazytoputthepasswordhere
User Name: Name Surname

but for tomcat I put the machine address, otherwise the javawebstart jar 
will complain :)

Insert Keystore Keyword: imnotsocrazytoputthepasswordhere
User Name: www.mymachinename.org [1]

This is the only way I know to be able to have two different keys and 
not having to have a public CA entrusted key :).

[1] actually I used the quad ip address.