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SSL communication between IHS and WAS

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satyam2009

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Oct 30, 2009, 6:03:48 AM10/30/09
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Hi,

I am doing some testing on fronting WAS with IHS.

I am trying IHS and WAS on the same physical machine . Is the communication between IHS and WAS SSL or non SSL ? How can i check this ? Also if it is SSL by default i want to make it non SSL to see what changes it has on performance.

Any help or guidance would be really appreciated. I am new to IHS and WAS.

thank you

regards
Satyam

Pushpender

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Oct 30, 2009, 6:54:00 AM10/30/09
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Hi Satyam
Default installation of IHS and WAS uses non ssl communication on port 80.If you want to configure ssl enabled communication you have setup IHS with virtual server using port 443.
Thanks

satyam2009

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Oct 30, 2009, 9:41:09 AM10/30/09
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Hi

Thank you for your response.

I have already added a SSL directive to the httpd.conf file for the IHS. However that secures the communication between the browser and the IHS if i am not mistaken.

What about the communication between the IHS and the WAS. IS that also automatically SSL ? How do i check the kind of communication taking place between these two ? I want the communication to be non-SSL. They are both on the same physical host.

thank you

Eric Covener

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Oct 30, 2009, 11:57:19 AM10/30/09
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If the frontend connection is SSL, and you have a working SSL transport
defined, the plugin favors SSL on the backend.

Same for plaintext on the frontend.

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Eric Covener

Sunit Patke

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Oct 30, 2009, 1:41:48 PM10/30/09
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The communication between IHS and WAS uses the ports defined for TCP
transport. For your setup check he Communications ports and look for
WC_defaulthost_secure and WC_defaulthost entries. You will find these
entries in the plugin-cfg.xml.

If you want to enforce SSL between IHS and WAS you can modify the Transport
Chain associated with these ports.

If both the ports are enabled and you use SSL between browse and IHS then
the plugin will favor the port that has SSL enabled.

- Sunit

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marcoensing

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Nov 4, 2009, 5:29:08 AM11/4/09
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Hello Satyam,

The traffice between the IHS and WAS server is configured in the plugin-cfg.xml of the WAS plugin ( in most cases ).

In a server cluster config you can specify a HTTP or/and a HTTPS directive.









You could measure the difference by one time only using the http protocol and second time using only the https protocol.









Regards,

Marco

Akash Bharti

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Nov 20, 2009, 7:17:05 AM11/20/09
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Just thought of sharing this good url for SSL configurations :

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc/wpf/ssl.html

Thanks
Akash

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