Which technology is used to secure the connection between client and server?
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client—typically a web server (website) and a browser, or a mail server and a mail client (e.g., Outlook).
Why is it important to encrypt the HTTP traffic for an authenticated connection between a client and web server?
Your security goals: privacy and trust You do this by encrypting the traffic. But you also need a trust relationship between the server and client. Authentication helps to prevent a client from being fooled into communicating with a malicious site.
How to create secure socket connection between client and server?
When running the sample programs that create a secure socket connection between a client and a server, you will need to make the appropriate certificates file (truststore) available. For both the client and the server programs, you should use the certificates file samplecacerts from the samples directory.
How to create an sslsocketclient client in Java?
The example SSLSocketClient.java demonstrates how to create a client that uses an SSLSocket to send an HTTP request and to get a response from an HTTPS server. By default, this example connects to www.verisign.com, but it can easily be adapted to connect to ClassFileServer (see Running ClassFileServer).
How to make samplecacerts available to both client and server?
To make the samplecacerts file available to both the client and the server, you can either copy it to the file java-home/lib/security/jssecacerts, rename it to cacerts, and use it to replace the java-home/lib/security/cacerts file, or add the following option to the command line when running the java command for both the client and the server:
How to communicate with a sample server program?
When running the sample client programs, you can communicate with an existing server, such as a web server, or you can communicate with the sample server program, ClassFileServer.