Replace SSLServerSocketFactory?

[Alan Marcinkowski <al...@covergence.com>]

Hello All,

 

I know that there used to be (in tomcat 4) a way to replace the
SSLServerSocketFactory that got used to create the listener. I'm using
5.5 and want to put in a custom socket factory with a custom
TrustManager that uses external configuration to make client
authentication decisions. We're using tomcat embedded (writing code
around the org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded class) to try and setup
the server. I looked at the Catalina source code and found in
Http11BaseProtocol.java:

 

    private void checkSocketFactory() throws Exception {

        if (secure) {

            try {

                // The SSL setup code has been moved into

                // SSLImplementation since SocketFactory doesn't

                // provide a wide enough interface

                sslImplementation =

 
SSLImplementation.getInstance(sslImplementationName);

                socketFactory =
sslImplementation.getServerSocketFactory();

                ep.setServerSocketFactory(socketFactory);

            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e){

                throw e;

            }

        } else if (socketFactoryName != null) {

            try {

                socketFactory = string2SocketFactory(socketFactoryName);

                ep.setServerSocketFactory(socketFactory);

            } catch(Exception sfex) {

                throw sfex;

            }

        }

    }

 

Which leads me to believe that directly overriding the factory is no
longer doable (also noticing that the <Factory> element is gone from the
XML server configuration file. Does anyone know a way to provide a
custom SSL implementation in 5.5 without rebuilding / rewriting the
actual Catalina code?

 

TIA,

 

Alan