When working with policy sets in the administrative console, you
can customize policies to ensure message security by configuring the SSL transport
policy.
Before you begin
You can configure some settings for default policies for custom policy
sets. The default policy sets provided with the application server cannot
be edited. To configure custom policy sets, you must first create a copy of
the default policy set or create a completely new policy set in order to specify
the policies for it.
About this task
You can customize the SSL transport with the SSL transport policy.
The SSL transport policy provides the SSL transport security for the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol with Web services applications.
Procedure
- Customize SSL transport policy configuration. From
the administrative console, click Services > Policy Sets > Application
Policy Sets > WSHTTPS default > SSL transport. The SSL transport window
displays options for configuring the SSL settings for the transport policy.
- Click the check boxes to enable the SSL functions. The
following check boxes determine how SSL security is configured for this transport:
- Enable for outbound service requests
- Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for outbound service
requests.
- Enable for outbound asynchronous service responses
- Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for outbound asynchronous
service responses.
- Enable for inbound service responses
- Displays whether the SSL security transport is enabled for inbound service
responses.
- Customize the SSL transport default binding configuration.
From the administrative console, click Services > Policy sets > Default
policy set bindings > SSL transport. The SSL transport window displays
options for configuring the SSL security bindings.
- Select the setting to configure the SSL bindings. The
following menu boxes determine how SSL bindings are applied:
- Outbound service requests
- If outbound service requests were enabled on the SSL transport settings
panel, this field displays the SSL security transport binding that is enabled
for outbound service requests.
- SSL settings
- Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for outbound
service requests. The default value for this field is CellDefaultSSLSettings.
- SSL properties file path
- Specifies the path of the SSL properties file that is enabled for asynchronous
service responses. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable
for asynchronous service responses.
- Outbound asynchronous service responses
- If outbound asynchronous service requests were enabled on the SSL transport
settings panel, this field displays whether the SSL security transport binding
is enabled for asynchronous service responses.
- SSL settings
- Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for asynchronous
service responses. The default value for this field is CellDefaultSSLSettings.
- SSL properties file path
- Specifies the file path of the SSL properties file that is enabled for
outbound service requests. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to
enable for outbound service requests.
- Inbound service responses
- If inbound service responses were enabled on the SSL transport settings
panel, this field displays the SSL security transport binding that is enabled
for inbound service responses.
- SSL settings
- Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for inbound
service responses. The default value for this field is CellDefaultSSLSettings.
- SSL properties file path
- Specifies the SSL security transport binding that is enabled for inbound
service responses. Enter the location of the SSL properties file to enable
for inbound service responses.
Results
Once you have customized the SSL transport policy, the associated
policy set uses this policy to protect message transmission. Similarly, you
can also configure HTTP transport with the HTTP transport policy. Read about
configuring the HTTP transport policy to learn how to configure the HTTP transport
with the HTTP transport policy.