Re: Providing web services using HTTPS

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

By default http:// uses port 80.  Also https:// uses port 443 by default.

If you're using SSL on a different port, you'll need to specify the port:

https://service.org:4433



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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am setting up a web service following the methods described by Scott
> Klement in his presentation at:
>
> http://www.scottklement.com/presentations/Providing%20RPG%
> 20Web%20Services%20on%20IBM%20i.pdf
>
> I can get everything to work when using http:// but I'd like the traffic
> to
> happen of TLS 1.x instead of plain text.  The web service runs on its own
> port, not 80 or 443.  This works:
>
> http://myserver.com:xxxx/yada/yada/yada
>
> This does not work:
>
> https://myserver.com:xxxx/yada/yada/yada
>
> Nothing in the server instance httpd.conf seems to be related, other than
> the listen port of xxxx.
>
> I also can't find discussion of this in the XMLHttpRequest docs at:
>
> https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
>
> I can control both the client and server side, so one option would be for
> me to do my own encrypt / decrypt (and EBDIC conversion) and pass binary
> data instead of trying to piggy back off https support.
>
> But is there a way to have the web service traffic just take advantage of
> the HTTPS support?
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